Asia & the Pacific

Understanding gender inequalities in wages and incomes in India

Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries

This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...

National Workshop on Urban Governance with Reference to Urban Poverty

A report of the proceedings of a national workshop organized by HomeNet Nepal, ActionAid International Nepal, Nepal Mahila Ekata Samaj, Ministry...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

Not for Sale: Singapore’s Remaining Heritage Street Food Vendors

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

Neglect of Sewage Workers: Concerns about the New Act

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually...

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...