India

The SEWA Movement and Rural Development: The Banaskantha and Kutch Experience

This absorbing book describes the story of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India and its efforts in rural development...

Report of The Second National Commission on Labour

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: Trends, Patterns and Social Security Coverage

Enhancing Capabilities Through Labour Law: Informal Workers in India

In 2002 the International Labour Organization issued a report titled ‘Decent work and the informal economy’ in which it stressed the need...

Social Security for Street Vendors

Promoting Low-Carbon Transport in India and the Challenges of Social Inclusion: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Case Studies in India

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Ahmedabad, India