From local to global and informal to formal: Entering mainstream markets

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’ organization, its aim has always been to mainstream its issues, hopes, and achievements.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Nanavaty, Reema
Publisher:	Helsinki : The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Subject:	Informeller Sektor \| Frauenerwerbstätigkeit \| Armut \| Indien \| women \| informal economy \| cooperative \| India \| poverty \| institutions

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Series:	WIDER Discussion Paper ; 2005/02
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	9291906727
Other identifiers:	480453322 [GVK] hdl:10419/52901 [Handle]
Classification:	D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations ; E26 - Informal Economy; Underground Economy ; O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ; P13 - Cooperative Enterprises ; Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
Source:	EconStor

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