Martha Chen

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Martha Chen is affiliated with the following schools: Connecticut College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Martha Chen is an American academic, scholar and social worker, who is presently a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and senior advisor of the global research-policy-action network WIEGO and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research . Martha is a development practitioner and scholar who has worked with the working poor in India, South Asia, and around the world. Her areas of specialization are employment, poverty alleviation, informal economy, and gender. She lived in Bangladesh working with BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations, and in India, as field representative of Oxfam America for India and Bangladesh for 15 years.

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Martha Chen's Published Works

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Published Works

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment (2007) (813)
The Informal Economy (2016) (430)
Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers (1999) (244)
Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : a handbook for policy - makers and other stakeholders (2004) (218)
Globalization and Home-Based Workers (2000) (210)
WOMEN IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR: A GLOBAL PICTURE, THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT (2000) (186)
Supporting workers in the informal economy : a policy framework (2002) (184)
Brands and Branding (2003) (183)
Women and Informality: A Global Picture, the Global Movement (2001) (159)
Speaking out : women's economic empowerment in South Asia (1996) (154)
UNIFEM Progress of the World’s Women 2005. Women, Work and Poverty. (2005) (139)
A Quiet Revolution: Women in Transition in Rural Bangladesh (1983) (122)
Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India (2000) (101)
Coping with seasonality and drought (1991) (97)
Informality gender and poverty : a global picture (2006) (96)
Globalization, social exclusion and gender (2004) (88)
Membership Based Organizations of the Poor (2007) (87)
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2010) (86)
Women and men in the informal economy: a statistical brief (2019) (75)
International NGO Training and Research Centre (2010) (72)
Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Work: With Special Reference to Informal Employment and Gender (2004) (68)
Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges (2011) (66)
A Matter of Survival: Women's Right to Employment in India and Bangladesh (2007) (66)
Widows in India : social neglect and public action (1998) (64)
Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns (2012) (55)
Informality and Social Protection: Theories and Realities (2009) (52)
Membership Based Organizations of the Poor: Concepts, Experience and Policy (2006) (51)
Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment (2005) (43)
The Informal Economy Revisited (2020) (36)
Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre (2015) (35)
Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion (2014) (35)
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) (2010) (34)
Editorial: Urban livelihoods: reframing theory and policy (2016) (33)
Home-based workers and cities (2016) (32)
Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective (2017) (29)
Poverty, gender and work in Bangladesh. (1990) (28)
Widowhood and well-being in rural north India. (1998) (25)
Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (2010) (25)
A sectoral approach to promoting women's work: Lessons from India (1989) (21)
Informalization of Labour Markets: Is Formalization the Answer? (2009) (19)
Listening to widows in rural India (1997) (17)
Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru) (2016) (16)
Including the Excluded: Supporting Informal Workers for More Equal and Productive Cities in the Global South (2018) (15)
Urban Informal Workers : Representative Voice and Economic Rights (2012) (15)
COVID-19, Cities and Urban Informal Workers: India in Comparative Perspective (2020) (14)
Informal Employment Revisited: Theories, Data & Policies (2013) (14)
Informal Employment in the Global South: Globalization, Production Relations, and “Precarity” (2017) (13)
Women, work, & poverty (2005) (9)
A spreading banyan tree: the Self Employed Women’s Association, India (2014) (8)
The Urban Informal Economy (2014) (7)
COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities (2021) (7)
Indian women : a study of their role in the dairy movement (1986) (6)
Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases (2014) (6)
Interest and Pressure Groups (2010) (4)
10. Overview; Sources of Disempowerment; Organizing Women for Economic Empowerment; Empowerment Strategies (1996) (4)
Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women’s Employment in Developing Economies (2021) (4)
In Charge of Change (1985) (4)
The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective (2012) (3)
Global recession and the informal economy: evidence from Latin America and beyond (2012) (3)
Kantha and Jamdani: Revival in Bangladesh (2016) (3)
Inclusive urban planning (2007) (3)
Informal Workers in the Developing World (2013) (3)
THE CORNELL-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Programme: An Overview of the Process and Main Outcomes (2012) (2)
1. Introduction - Speaking Out (1996) (2)
Beveridge, Lord William Henry (2010) (1)
Urban livelihoods: reviewing the evidence in support of the New Urban Agenda (2016) (1)
Conclusion Expanding the Boundaries of Labor Organizing and Collective Bargaining (2017) (1)
A gamble on the monsoon: Coping with seasonality and drought in Western India (1989) (1)
Introduction (2020) (1)
WIEGO research on informal employment (2020) (1)
The Informal Workforce in a Global Economy (2012) (1)
Growth and Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (2012) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Economic Rights of the Informal Self-Employed (2019) (0)
INFORMAL SECTOR AND SOCIAL POLICY Compendium of Personal and Technical Reflections Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Program Oaxaca, Mexico (2009) (0)
Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. HALEH AFSHAR (1987) (0)
Introduction Broadening Labor’s Repertoire? (2017) (0)
Recycling Livelihoods: a Global Network Supports Waste Pickers in Latin America (Recycling lives). (2016) (0)
Chapter 12. Famine, Widowhood and Paid Work (2008) (0)
Back matter - Speaking Out (1996) (0)
Barnett, Samuel Augustus (2010) (0)
Review Essay: Recent Books on Gender in India (2000) (0)
Business and Employers’ Associations (2010) (0)
Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion (2014) (0)
Informal worker organising and mobilisation (2017) (0)
Prelims - Speaking Out (1996) (0)
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) (2010) (0)
11. The Economic Empowerment of Women; Increased Bargaining Power; Structural Change; Towards a Broader Perspective on Women’s Empowerment (1996) (0)
The 15th Annual Conference on Feminist Economics (2007) (0)
Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO 2008 Dialogue - Ahmedabad and Delhi Compendium of Personal and Technical Notes (2008) (0)
22 Informal Employment: Theory and Reality (2015) (0)
Urban Spatial Development in the Context of the Informal Economy: Global Trend and Local Planning Response (2019) (0)
Enhancing the Productivity of Own Account Enterpises from the Perspective of Women in the Informal Economy (2016) (0)

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