Santosh Mehrotra is a senior policy advisor for the United Nations Development Program based in Bangkok, Thailand. His books include Development With a Human Face (edited with R. Jolly, 1997); Eliminating Human Poverty: Macro economic Policies for Equitable Growth; and The Economics of Elementary Education in India. Mario Biggeri is senior lecturer in development economics at the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests include economies of transition, international aid, clusters and informal activities, rural development, and child labour and child's capabilities, and he has published widely in these areas.
Part 1: A Cross-Country Analysis of Industrial Outwork in Asia 1. The
Empirical Context and a Theoretical Framework 2. Research Methodology 3.
Subcontracting and Homework in the Value Chain 4. Homeworkers 5. Child
Labour in Homework Part 2: The Country Studies 6. Subcontracted Homework in
India: A Case Study of Three Sectors 7. Hazardous Subcontracted Homework in
Pakistan 8. Women and Children Homeworkers in Indonesia 9. Subcontracted
Homework by Women and Children in The Philippines 10. Subcontracted
Homework in Thailand Part 3: Policy Implications 11. Upgrading Informal
Micro- and Small Enterprises through Clusters - Towards a Policy Agenda 12.
Extending Social Insurance to Informal Wage Workers
