The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector

What’s put forward as pro-poor interventions in the reports in fact risk actively increasing inequality and further disadvantaging …

Sweltering summers: India must safeguard workforce from heatwaves, warn experts

Proper implementation of government relief schemes, the impact of heat on workers, flexible working hours, should all be looked into, say experts

Informal economy in perspective

Book>>At Work in the Informal Economy of India: A Perspective from the Bottom Up>>by Jan Bremen, Oxford University Press, Rs 995

The real Johannesburg: 6 powerful photos from a gritty new book on the city

The book is an ethnographic portrait of one of Africa’s most vibrant and intriguing cities