Topics Sustainable enterprises

Enhancing women’s economic empowerment through digital cash transfers: Analysis of the Digitize/Direct/Design criteria applied to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar, India

This report shares the results from a recent landscaping exercise that identifies the constraints to effectively serving Bihari women through National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), India’s largest safety net program for rural households. The report is structured in line…

Emerging trends in the use of technology as a driver of the transition to formality: Experiences from Asia and the Pacific

Informality trends across labour markets are likely to be affected by the rising diffusion of technology in many ways. On the one hand, there are apprehensions concerning the risks of job losses due to increasing automation of production processes and…

‘Doing dignity work’: Indian security guards’ interface with precariousness

This study examines the dynamics of workplace dignity in the context of Indian security guards deployed as contract labour by private suppliers, recognizing that security guards’ jobs were marked by easy access, low status, disrespect and precariousness. The experiences of…

New technologies and the transition to formality: The trend towards e-formality

This paper focusses on how technologies can enhance the impact of institutional public policies addressing informality. Today, an increasing number of governments are promoting the application of new technologies to simplify and facilitate the transition from the informal to the…