Asia & the Pacific

Street Vendor Livelihoods and Everyday Politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: The Seeds of a Diverse Economy?

Good Practices in Safety, Health and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand

The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in IndiaCanadian Journal of Women and the Law

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Who Should Be Accountable for the Bangladesh Building Collapse?

Handbook on Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia

The Exceptional Persistence of India’s Unorganized Sector

This paper documents several key facts about India’s unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions...

Public Disclosure, Reputation Sensitivity, and Labor Law Compliance: Evidence from Better Factories CambodiaReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

Enhancing Capabilities Through Labour Law: Informal Workers in India

In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need...

Patterns and Practices of Spatial Transformation in Non-Metros: The Case of Tiruchengode

Urban transformation in Tiruchengode town in Tamil Nadu has been predominantly driven by processes internal to it. It has been driven by...

Law, Rights and Regulation for Street Vending in Globalising Ahmedabad

Abstract: This working paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade in the...