This note was first published as a part of session 1 of the four-part webinar series hosted by Dvara Research and IndiaSpend.

In Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism, Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith address the problems in the prevailing discourse on work and outline how exactly we can put a post-work future into practice.

This response identifies some overarching concerns with the Report that we seek to convey and substantiate. They are categorised under the following three sections: Section 1: The Report fails to identify the basis for a separate regulatory regime to regulate non-personal data (NPD).

In this blog post, we present our comments to the Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

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In this post, we examine some questions with respect to India’s minimum wage laws, in light of the Code on Wages, 2019 and the Draft Wages Code Rules, 2020

The Social Protection Initiative organised a closed-door virtual roundtable discussion on social security for self-employed workers

In the wake of COVID-19 related lockdown and the resultant impact on the financial lives of millions of households, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved a series of regulatory measures, which among others, enabled lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a 6 month-repayment moratorium on term loans. A debt moratorium at this scale […]

This policy brief examines the implications of debt moratorium in the context of microcredit

This post is part of a series of guest posts on social security for self-employed workers in the informal economy