Asia & the Pacific

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...

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

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

If Street Food Disappears — Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

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Fighting Poverty from the Street:A Survey of Street Food Vendors in Bangkok

Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment.Thailand Series, No. 1

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

This paper considers whether national and local government budgets in the Philippines make a difference to informal economy workers – particularly...