""Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Pr

This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates fo

In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women

This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents

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