Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood

1. Introduction
Debdulal Saha, Rajdeep Singha, Virginius Xaxa

Part I. Rural Economy and Its Transformation

2. Rural Transformation and Indigenous Peoples in India
Virginius Xaxa

3. Ghana’s Gold Boom and Multinational Corporations: Resource Nationalism or Countervailing Force?
Patrick K. Agbesinyale

4. Augmenting Small Farmers’ Income Through Rural Non-farm Sector in India: Role of Information and Institutions
Meenakshi Rajeev, Manojit Bhattacharjee

5. Social Welfare, Unemployment and Public Works in Rural Southern Mozambique
Ruth Castel-Branco

6. Understanding Social Reality(ies) of Rural Livelihoods: Insights from a Comprehensive Study in Two Villages in Mozambique
Claudia Levy

Part II. Urbanization and Sustainable Livelihood

7. A New Approach to Rural Labour Mobility in the Labour Surplus Economy: A Tripartite Labour Supply Model
Cheng Li

8. Urbanization, Land Alienation and Proletarianization: A Study of Rajbansis in North Bengal
Hemantika Basu

9. Street Food, Food Safety and Sustainability in an Emerging Mega City: Insights from an Empirical Study in Hyderabad, India
Christoph Dittrich

Part III. Innovations and Instruments in Transformation

10. The Promises of New Instruments for the Promotion of Decent Work
Christoph Scherrer, Stefan Beck

11. Microcredits, Returns and Gender: Of Reliable Poor Women and Financial Inclusion in South Asia
Christa Wichterich

12. Organizing the Informal Economy in Senegal
Thomas Greven

Nyckelord: Economics, Development Economics, Development Studies, Sociology of Work, International Political Economy