Asia & the Pacific

Transitioning into the Formal – Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy of Nepal

Abstract: This qualitative study aims to understand how and why different groups of informal women entrepreneurs in Nepal engage with, or...

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

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...

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...

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...

Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India

Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations...

Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly

Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links...

Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia

Background paper presented at Regional Policy Seminar on Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Policy...

Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India