All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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Research Reports
Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India
Abstract: This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with...
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Journal Articles
Weapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum CommunitiesSojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
Abstract: This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced...
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Research Reports
The Beedi Industry in India: An Overview
A report on Improving Working Conditions and Employment Opportunities for Women Workers in Beedi Industry by Best Practices Foundation for...
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...
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Journal Articles
One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...
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Books & Book Chapters
‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project
This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....
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Research Reports
Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector
This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...
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Journal Articles
Economic Survey 2014-15Economic and Political Weekly
The Economic Survey is an important economic document published every year by the Ministry of Finance. This article undertakes a critical...
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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...
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In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs
The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...
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