India

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship...

Monetary Policy and Informal FinanceEconomic and Political Weekly

This article utilises state-level data for 1961-2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis...

Waste Pickers Lead the Way to Zero Waste

This is a case study, published by GAIA, about waste pickers in Pune, India.

The Making of “World-Class” Delhi: Relations Between Street Hawkers and the New Middle Class.Antipode

Urban India is undergoing transformation as formal electoral politics increasingly favors the new middle class. Scholarship tends to compartmentalize...

Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India

Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations...

Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women

Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

An Economic Sociology of Informal Work: The Case of India

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