Region: India

Defying NGO-ization?: Lessons in Livelihood Resilience Observed Among Involuntarily Displaced Women in Mumbai, IndiaWorld Development

Summary: This article focuses on how a group of women involuntarily displaced from Mumbai’s slums managed the resulting sizeable disruptions...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Urban Informal Sector: Size and Income Generation Processes in Gujarat. Parts I and II

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Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Women in the Indian Informal Economy: Collective Strategies for Work Life Improvement and Development

Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust

Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure...