Asia & the Pacific

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

Women Subcontracted Workers in Sri Lanka

This chapter about subcontracted workers in Sri Lanka is part of the book that, as described on amazon.com, “studies the impact of...

Street Vending in Ten Cities in India

This report was written for NASVI (National Association of Street Vendors of India).

Claiming Urban Space: Street Vending in Ahmedabad

Working Paper 2: Law, Rights and Regulation in the Informal EconomyESRC-DFID Research Project

Employment Vulnerability in the Urban Labour Market in India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been...

A Gendered Analysis of Decent Work Deficits in India’s Urban Informal Economy: Case Study Perspectives from Surat

From the publisher: “Through case study material from a 2004 study of urban informal employment in Surat, India, this chapter emphasises...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...