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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

07/12/2022

14 pages long

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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

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Demonetisation of the Indian economy in 2016 facilitated significant changes in the lifestyle of people, particularly in adoption of digital transactions in everyday life. While there have been studies on mobile phones and the digital divide even prior to demonetisation, the growing gender disparity in the use of new technologies for secure payment via UPI […]

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Gendered identities and digital inequalities: an exploration of the lived realities of the transgender community in the Indian digital welfare state

07/12/2022

19 pages long

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Gendered identities and digital inequalities: an exploration of the lived realities of the transgender community in the Indian digital welfare state

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With rapid digitalisation and technological advancements, the emergence of digital welfare states worldwide has become a reality. Broadly, the term digital welfare state refers to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital tools to transform public and welfare services, such as biometric identification systems and automated systems to verify the eligibility of […]

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

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The expansion of digital labour platforms (DLPs) in South Asia has incorporated the pre-existing intersectional social inequalities, initiating new sites of exploitation and collective resistance which disrupt and negotiate the gendered labour's positions of vulnerabilities. This paper explores the case of a courageous strike by women workers of Urban Company (online beauty and home services […]

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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy

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Women have a long history of organising in the informal economy, despite facing several challenges around geographical dispersion, time poverty, and lack of recognition. These challenges persist in the platform economy which pose similar concerns around precarious irregular work. Recent literature has documented the adoption of traditional and novel strategies to resist platform exploitation, through […]

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Leveraging digital technologies to enable women’s co-operatives: experience of national insurance VimoSEWA Co-operative Ltd.

07/12/2022

21 pages long

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Leveraging digital technologies to enable women’s co-operatives: experience of national insurance VimoSEWA Co-operative Ltd.

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This paper discusses how VimoSEWA, a micro-insurance entity serving informal workers since 1992 across several states in India, leveraged digital technologies in its entire operation to ensure that women from marginalised groups continued to be financially covered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

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Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Locating women workers in the platform economy in India – old wine in a new bottle?

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Using the feminist lens of women economic empowerment and the concepts of resources, agency, and achievements, and the inter-related concepts of power, this article shares the experience of women beauty workers and women cab drivers working on different types of platform models in India. While beauty work is essentially a feminised sector of work in […]

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Climate finance in Asia: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions

01/11/2022

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards including extreme temperatures, flooding, droughts, cyclones, and sea level rise. The most vulnerable communities need financial support to help adapt to the climate crisis – they cannot do so alone. Developed countries have promised $100 bn in climate finance to developing countries every year until 2025. This promise […]

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Asia’s Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building back fairer after COVID-19

26/09/2022

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36 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality. This is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins. A few Asian governments have done a lot to fight inequality during […]

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COVID-19 – a crisis of care and what we can learn from the SEWA experience in India

31/08/2022

17 pages long

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COVID-19 – a crisis of care and what we can learn from the SEWA experience in India

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As women across the globe continue to be overburdened with child-care responsibilities owing to the closure of institutional child-care facilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper attempts to posit a viable disaster-resilient model through the idea of community-based care infrastructure. Based on research conducted among parents from low-income groups, whose children attended child-care centres […]

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COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

31/08/2022

29 pages long

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COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

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Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had disproportionately negative impacts on the majority of the world’s workers who work informally, and on women informal workers in particular. This reflects the interplay between the pandemic, existing decent work deficits in informal employment, and discriminatory gendered norms within and outside the workplace. Based on […]

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