India

Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...

Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...

Role of Informal Recyclers in Small and Medium Towns in India

The Urban Informal Workforce: Home-Based Workers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Integrating the Urban Poor in Planning and Governance Systems, India

This paper is Working Paper 3 in the CUE Working Papers Series. More information and other related research papers are available on the website...

Sustainable urban development in India: An inclusive perspectiveDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: The mainstream debate on urban development looks either at urban development or sustainable cities, and tends to miss out on people-centred...

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Ahmedabad’s Street Vendors: Realities & Recommendations

Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

Abstract: India’s manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net...

Tamil Nadu’s Electronics IndustryEconomic and Political Weekly

India’s information technology hardware segment is heavily dependent on imports of components and finished goods. After surveying Tamil...

Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy

Abstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis...