India

Measuring Informality of Employment in Urban India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

In recent years, there has been an effort to clearly define informality along two axes, the legal status of the enterprise, that is, the...

Pune’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations

Indian ExportsEconomic and Political Weekly

A time series of exports indicates that average export growth has remained almost stagnant since January 2012 after a sharp bounce back in...

A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations

This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha’s experiences in central India

Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative...

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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

An Economic Sociology of Informal Work: The Case of India

Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

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Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...