Asia & the Pacific

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO 2008 Dialogue – Ahmedabad and Delhi – Compendium of Personal and Technical Notes

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Understanding the diffusion modes of grassroots innovations in India: A study of Honey Bee Network supported innovators

Abstract: In this paper we examine the outcomes and connections of preferences of the non-formal innovators identified by the Honey Bee Network...

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

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Fighting Poverty from the Street:A Survey of Street Food Vendors in Bangkok

Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment.Thailand Series, No. 1

Decent work deficits in informal economy: Case of Surat

Women in the Indian Informal Economy: Collective Strategies for Work Life Improvement and Development

Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzen Special Economic Zone, China