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Research Focus
My current areas of research include labour market inequality, poverty and precarity, street vending, migration, decent work, producers collectives, labour in tea plantation, and small tea growers. I was engaged in some of the following funded research:
- ‘Study on Labour Influx under the Civil Works of Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART)’, funded by World Bank and ARIAS Society, Government of Assam. (2020).
- ‘Decent Work for Tea Plantation Workers in Assam: Constraints, Challenges and Prospects’, funded by Oxfam Germany (2019).
- ‘Value Chain and Decent Work: Study of Small Tea Growers in India’, funded by International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany (2018).
- ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment Survey in Selected three Districts of Meghalaya, India’, funded by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu. (2017).
- ‘Financial Accessibility of Street Vendors: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion’, funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (2011).
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Selected Publications
- Saha, Debdulal. 2020. ‘Producer Collectives through Self-Help: Sustainability of Small Tea Growers in India’, International Review of Applied Economics, 34(4): 471-490
- Saha, Debdulal. 2017. Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street Vendors in Urban India, London and New York: Routledge.
- Bhowmik, Sharit and Debdulal Saha. 2013. Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy, New York and New Delhi: Springer.
- Saha, Debdulal. 2011. ‘Working Life of Street Vendors in Mumbai’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 54(2): 301-325.
- Xaxa, Virginius, Debdulal Saha and Rajdeep Singha (Eds). 2019. Employment and Labour Market in Northeast India: Interrogating Structural Changes, London and New Delhi: Routledge.
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