Programme Areas: General Activities
INFORMALITY, POVERTY, AND GROWTH:
LABOUR MARKETS IN CHINA AND INDIA
Research Design Workshop
Harvard University
April 2-3, 2007
This workshop was planned as part of a series of joint
learning and program design activities involving teams of researchers
from China and India working on informal employment in the two economies.
Following a study tour of 16 Chinese participants to India in February
1 (click here to read the Workshop
Report from the February 2007 Meeting in Delhi), this workshop
was planned to bring a smaller group of participants (6 members
from each country team) together with other technical advisors and
relevant experts in order to:
- share existing findings and thinking about research and policy
on informal employment in the two countries;
- receive feedback on the findings, initial thinking and approach
to the project from a wider audience of academics, practitioners
and funders, as a contribution to the development of the next
phase in the project; and
- work as a team on developing a proposal to be submitted to
funders for future research.
The activities included internal discussions among the project
team and advisors, and a larger workshop. Below please find links
to the reports of the two workshops as well as the powerpoint presentations
given during the April workshop.
Workshop Reports
Workshop Presentations
SESSION 1 - Background Presentations on
Key Issues and Questions
Background,
Goals, and Framework of Project
Sarah Cook, University of Sussex, UK
The
Informal Economy: New Definition and Recent Trends
Marty Chen, Harvard University, USA
China
and India: Comparative Overview
Sarah Cook and Marty Chen
Labor
Market in India
Jeemol Unni, Gujarat Institute for Development Research and
National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector,
India
Labor
Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China
Ming Lu, Fudan University, China
SESSION 1 - Discussant Comments on Key Issues
and Questions
Discussant
Comments
Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University, UK
Richard Freeman, Harvard University, USA
SESSION 2 - Presentations on
Research Component #1 (Data Methology) and Research Component #2
(Data Analysis)
Research
Component # 1 Data Methodology
N.S. Sastry, ex-National Sample Survey Organisation, India
Research
Component # 2 Data Analysis
Xizhe Peng, Fudan University, China
Yaowu Wu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Jeemol Unni, Gujarat Institute for Development Research and National
Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, India
SESSION 3 - Presentations on Research Component
#3 (Qualitative Case Studies)
Informality, Poverty, and Growth: The Labour Force in China and
India
Marty Chen, Harvard University, USA
Subsector
Value Chain and Occupational Studies
Yuan Ren, Fudan University, China
A
Study on Domestic Services Industry in Shanghai
Jufen Wang, Fudan University, China
Traditional
Herbal Medicine Sector, China: Applying Value Chain Analysis
Yao Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Science, China
Findings
from Studies of Homebased Workers
Ratna Sudarshan, Institute of Social Studies Trust, India
Research
and Action at SEWA
Shalini Sinha, SEWA, India
SESSION 3 - Discussant Comments on Research
Component #3
Discussants:
Comments and Suggestions
Mei-Ling Ellerman, USA
Katherine McFate, Ford Foundation, USA
SESSION 4 - Presentations on the Policy,
Legal and Institutional Environment in China and India
Policy,
Legal and Institutional Environment
Xizhe Peng, Fudan University, China
Legislation
to Protect Informal Workers in India
Kamala Sankaran, University of Delhi, India
Suman Bery, NCAER, India
SESSION 4 - Discussant Comments on on the
Policy, Legal and Institutional Environment in China and India
Dwight Perkins, Harvard University, USA
Discussant
Comments
Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University, UK
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