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Research Reports
Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases
Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009
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Policy Briefs
India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors
India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...
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Journal Articles
Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review
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Research Reports
The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India
Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...
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Research Reports
Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence
This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India’s unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase...
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Journal Articles
Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat
Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...
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Research Reports
Vendors and Informal Sector: A Case-Study of Street Vendors of Surat City
Abstract: Street vending is an important activity related to informal sector in urban areas. Majority of street vendors are illiterate or...
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Research Reports
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...
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Journal Articles
Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India
Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...
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Books & Book Chapters
A Gendered Analysis of Decent Work Deficits in India’s Urban Informal Economy: Case Study Perspectives from Surat
From the publisher: “Through case study material from a 2004 study of urban informal employment in Surat, India, this chapter emphasises...
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