Asia & the Pacific

Female employment under export-propelled industrialization: Prospects for internalizing global opportuninites in the apparel sector in Bangladesh

The great transformation in the setting of Asia

Address delivered at the 57th Anniversary of the International Institute of Social Studies, 29 October 2009

Earning their keep and keeping what they earn: A critique of organizing strategies for South Asian women in the informal sector

Abstract:

Trends and Processes of Urbanisation in India

10 Years of the Better Factories Cambodia Project

From Clean Clothes Campaign: Started in 2001, the goal of the Better Factories program is to improve the working conditions in Cambodian...

The Informal Economy in Indonesia: Size, Composition and Evolution

This study of statistical audit informal economy: an Indonesian case study was undertaken as part of an effort to clarify data- and statistics-related...

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Bangladesh

This report contains the findings of the 2010 labour force survey and the related suvey of informal sector enterprises. The surveys were...

Decent Work for All: Targeting Full Employment in Thailand

As described on the ILO website, this book “presents a timely examination of the issues and challenges in tackling the employment situation...

Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad

NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75

Homeworkers in Thailand and Legal Rights Protections