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The Size of Informal Economy in Pakistan
Arby, Muhammad Farooq; Malik, Muhammad Jahanzeb; Hanif, … - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper estimates the size of informal economy in Pakistan by using monetary approach with some modifications … electricity consumption approach and MIMIC models are used for the first time in case of Pakistan. The results show that the … informal economy in Pakistan has been about 30 percent of the total economy which declined considerably in 2000s. Currently …
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The Global Labour Standards Controversy: Critical Issues for Developing Countries
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Ann - eSocialSciences - 2014
This policy study seeks to move the debate on labour standards beyond the present stalemate onto a more constructive plane. While closely examining the economic arguments in this controversy, it is also concerned with the broader political and moral dimensions. The authors suggest that...
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Approach Paper: Vulnerabilities of Women Homebased Workers`
Mazumdar, Indrani - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship right to economic and social justice and equality. The class of more privileged educated professionals who might be working...
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From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets
Nanavaty, Reema - eSocialSciences - 2010
This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three- decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy...
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Formalizing the Informal Economy: Women’s Autonomous Self-Employment in Rural South India
Watson, Samantha - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This study takes advantage of data from the year 2000 in the Indian National Sample...
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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges
Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013
This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 and 182. The study also tries to identify various gaps in the existing data base of the informal...
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Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector
NCEUS, NCEUS - eSocialSciences - 2012
This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining India. It concentrates on a detailed analysis of the conditions of work and lives of the unorganized workers consisting of...
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Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms
Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal...
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Definitional and Statistical Issues Relating to Workers in Informal Employment
Bhalla, Sheila - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3].
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Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
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