All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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Research Reports
Surveying Informalised Labour Conditions in India’s Organised Garment Sector
Development Viewpoint, No. 79
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Research Reports
The Oppressive Labour Conditions of the Working Poor in the Peripheral Segments of India’s Garment Sector
Development Viewpoint, No. 81
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Journal Articles
IPRs for FarmersEconomic and Political Weekly
A number of state agencies and non-governmental organisations have come forward to facilitate farmers/breeders to register their crop varieties...
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Positioning women homeworkers in a global footwear production network: How can homeworkers improve agency, influence and claim rights?The Journal of Industrial Relations
Abstract: This article analyses the position of women footwear homeworkers, using global production networks as a conceptual lens. Using...
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Sidewalk Informality: An Examination of Street Vending Regulation in ChinaInternational Planning Studies
Street vending represents a vital and growing aspect of the urban informal economy that is often the subject of municipal regulatory efforts...
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Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis
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Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations
The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...
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Working Papers
Health Financing and Delivery in India: An Overview of Selected Schemes
This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific...
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Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology
In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...
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Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India
Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations...
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