symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Harsh Sethi, Consulting Editor, 'Seminar'

• RETHINKING THE INFORMAL ECONOMY
  Martha Alter Chen, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA

• GROWTH, INFORMALITY AND INSECURITY
  Sukti Dasgupta, Labour Economist, ILO Programme on Socio-Economic Security, Geneva

• GENDER, INFORMALITY AND POVERTY
  Jeemol Unni and Uma Rani, faculty members, The Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

• LIBERALIZATION AND WOMEN
  Renana Jhabvala, Chairperson, SEWA Bank and National Coordinator of SEWA, Delhi

• WOMEN ARGICULTURE WORKERS 
  Reema Nanavaty, Chair, SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre, Self Employed Women's Association, Ahmedabad

• ORGANIZING THE UNORGANISED
  K.R. Shyam Sundar, Guru Nanak College, Mumbai University

• ENHANCING SKILLS
  Sandra Rothboeck, currently working on a research project on empowerment of the working poor through Mayaorganic, and Vinita S., in charge of Research and Documentation, MAYA, Bangalore

• COPING WITH IMPOVERISHMENT
  Jan Breman, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Sociology, Amsterdam School of Social Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY
  Ratna M. Sudarshan, Director, Institute of Social Studies Trust, Delhi

• OF BEGINNINGS, MEANS AND ENDS
  Piush Antony, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sagarika Ghose, Harsh Sethi, Sandeep Sengupta, Govindini Shah, Ashley Tellis, Pampa Mukherjee, P. Radhakrishnan and Rajni Palriwala

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