Region: India

Women Informal Workers Mobilizing for Child Care

This paper provides Member-Based Organizations (MBOs) with examples of how women in informal employment are mobilizing for child care in...

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

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Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms

Understanding Gender Inequalities in Wages and Incomes in India

India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

Informality and Gender in the Labour Market for Muslims in India: Has education been a route out of poverty?

Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: Trends, Patterns and Social Security Coverage

Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

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...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India