Living the Climate Crisis: Overlooked Perspectives of Informal Workers in a Changing Urban India
Webinar Series | Working through Climate: Informal Workers in Changing Urban India Background: Our cities are experiencing an unprecedented rate of climate variations and their growing impacts. These include more frequent and intense heatwaves, storms, and urban flooding. Among the most affected are the urban poor and informal workers, who form over 90 per cent […]
Urban Employment Guarantee in India: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The last few years have seen a lot of discussion and debate, as well as policy experiments on urban employment programmes in India. In Basole et al (2019) a possible design for an employment guarantee programme was presented for small towns, intended to reduce underemployment and precarity in the informal sector while investing in local […]