Asia & the Pacific

City adaptation strategies: Recognising livelihood struggles of migrant workers in India

Bringing Back Social ForestryEconomic and Political Weekly

India’s social forestry programme promised much in the late-1970s and mid-1980s. It became the programme to be emulated for many developing...

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

A new generation of Bangkok Street vendors: Economic crisis as opportunity and threatCities

In 1997, the financial crisis seriously damaged the Thai economy and led to the closing of many companies. Previously, it had been believed...

Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India

Increased urbanization in India has meant more poor people live in hazardous conditions, lacking access to even basic facilities and services....

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

Indian Capitalism in Development

Recognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised, this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using...

Labour Policy 2010

Informal Labour in the Construction Industry in Nepal