In this paper, we investigate the working conditions of the young women working as assistants in the food vending sector in Tanzania using interviews and focus group discussions which are supplemented with quantitative survey. Data were collected in the municipalities of Nyamagana and Ilemela in...

Understanding and analyzing development theory as well as practice in the contemporary developing world today is incomplete without an analysis of informal sector in the urban space. With continuous and increased urbanization happening in these countries, urban informal sector has also expanded...

Even though informality, work quality and worker well-being are closely knit issues, there is a dearth of studies which explore the issue of informality as deficiency of workers' well-being or poor job-quality. Our study is an attempt to contribute to the literature in this direction. We propose...

This work is with respect to labour security of women workers in urban informal sector in West Bengal. Labour security implies certain benefits (other than wage payments) to a person for being a labourer as his/her right or entitlement(s). Earlier studies suggest that informal women workers are...

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...

Ramseyer Paper gave the sex-slave theory believers a considerable shock but did not activate the arguments. The paper demonstrates the sustainability of the comfort women system with contracts for sex, which reinforces the prostitute theory and indirectly denies the slave theory. Rebuttals...