Asia & the Pacific

A Note on SWaCH

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia

National Occupational Safety and Health Profile of Mongolia

Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India

Abstract: This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with...

Weapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum CommunitiesSojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

Abstract: This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced...

The Beedi Industry in India: An Overview

A report on Improving Working Conditions and Employment Opportunities for Women Workers in Beedi Industry by Best Practices Foundation for...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...

‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project

This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....