This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on informal employment, and highlights the growing significance of…
Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective…
Book abstract: Women in the Global Economy: Leading Social Change explores the landscape of women’s participation in the economy and the…
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics. Using…
Poverty, although it has declined dramatically in the last few decades, affects more than a billion
people in the contemporary world. Their…
This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers. After a brief…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…