Asia & the Pacific

Liberalization in Trade and Finance: India’s Garment Sector

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...

Street Vendors in Ahmedabad: Status, Contribution and Challenges

From the preface: “This Working Paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade...

Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India’s Economic Boom

Abstract: In the past twenty years, India’s economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies...

Surveying Informalised Labour Conditions in India’s Organised Garment Sector

Development Viewpoint, No. 79

The Oppressive Labour Conditions of the Working Poor in the Peripheral Segments of India’s Garment Sector

Development Viewpoint, No. 81

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...

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...

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...