Sukti Dasgupta and Ratna M. Sudarshan (2011) Issues in Labour Market Inequality and Women’s Participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, Working Paper No. 98, Policy Integration Department, ILO, Geneva

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: Women’s Participation and Impacts in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Rajasthan, CSP Research Report, IDS, Sussex, 2011; reviewed at http://www.ifad.org/drd/policy/44.htm

 Ratna M. Sudarshan and Shalini Sinha (2011) Making Home-Based Work Visible: A Review of Evidence from South Asia. Urban Policies Research Report, No. 10

Kabeer, Naila, Ratna Sudarshan and Kirsty Millward (eds), 2013, Organising Women Workers in the Informal Economy, London: Zed Books

Ratna M. Sudarshan and Suchi Pande (eds.) 2007. Ensuring Public Accountability through Community Action: A Case Study in East Delhi. New Delhi: Institute of Social Studies Trust.

Renana Jhabvala, Ratna M. Sudarshan, Jeemol Unni. (editors). 2003. Informal Economy Centrestage. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Swapna Mukhopadhyay and Ratna M. Sudarshan (editors). 2003. Tracking Gender Equity under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in South Asia. New Delhi: Kali for Women and IDRC, Ottawa.

Maitreyi Krishnaraj, Ratna M. Sudarshan and Abusaleh Shariff,(eds) 1998. Gender, Population and Development. New Delhi: Oxford University Press

Naila Kabeer, Kirsty Millward and Ratna Sudarshan (2013), 'Organising women workers in the informal economy', Gender and Development, 21:2, 249-263.

'Women workers: addressing constraints to work' (2013), Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol 48, no 3, 2013, pp 428-437

Ratna M. Sudarshan and Divya Sharma. (2012). 'Gendering Evaluations: Reflections on the Role of the Evaluator in Enabling a Participatory Process', Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 19(2) 303–320

Divya Sharma and Ratna M. Sudarshan (2010) –“Towards a politics of collective empowerment: learning from hill women in rural Uttarakhand, India”. IDS Bulletin Volume 41 Number 5 September 2010 pp 43-51

Ratna M. Sudarshan, Rina Bhattacharya, Grace Fernandes (2010) – “Women’s Participation in the NREGA: Some Observations from Fieldwork in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Rajasthan” IDS Bulletin Volume 41 Number 4 July 2010 pp 77-83

‘Making Research Matter in South Asia’, with Katherine Hay, Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 16, 2010 pp 34-36

‘Through the magnifying glass: women’s work and labour force participation in urban Delhi’, with Shrayana Bhattacharya, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLIV no 48 November 28- December 4, 2009, pp 59-66.

 ‘Child labour in industrial outworker households in India’, with Mario Biggeri and Santosh Mehrotra, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 44 No. 12 March 21 - March 27, 2009

‘Reflections on gender, social norms, and the conditions for change’, Psychological Foundations – The Journal, IX (2), September 2007, pp 6-9.  

‘Vocational Training for Women in Informal Employment’. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration. Vol XIX No 4 Oct 2005 pp 543-550; also in Jandhyala B.G. Tilak (edited) 2007 “Women’s Education and Development”, New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House.

‘The Costs of Informality: an illustration from India’. Labour Education 2002/2 no 127. International Labour Office. P 51-55.

‘Managing Ecosystems for Health and Sustainable Development: an illustration from the Kumaon’. 2001. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 8:2 p. 207-222. Also in Sumi Krishna (ed) Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management (Sage Publications, 2004). Abstracted in World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts section of the CAB ABSTRACTS(r) database.

‘Contribution of the informal sector to the economy: report of a seminar’. Margin 33: 1 pp 70-83.

Ratna Sudarshan and Jeemol Unni. 2001. ‘When Home Based Workers Raise their Voices: An Indian Perspective’ . SAIS Review vol XXI no. 1, Winter-Spring 2001. p 109-115.

Ratna Sudarshan and Rupinder Kaur. 1999. ‘The Tobacco Industry and Women’s Employment: Old Concerns and New Imperatives’ in Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol 42/4, p. 675-685.

Ratna Sudarshan and Nita Mishra. 1999. ‘Gender and Tobacco Consumption in India', Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, vol 5, no.1, p 84-114.

“Reading the Signposts: Social Protection for Home-based Women Workers in South Asia” in Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives, (2010), edited by Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, New York, New Delhi, pp 165 - 189.

Rina Bhattacharya, Meera Pillai, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2010) – “The NREGA and Rural Women in Poverty: Entitlements, Issues and Emerging Concerns” in What Works For The Poorest? Poverty Reduction Programmes For The World's Extreme Poor edited by David Lawson, David Hulme, Imran Matin and Karen Moore, Practical Action Publishing, pp195-208.

 (with Medha Bisht). 2010. ‘‘Voice’ as a pathway to women’s empowerment: reflections on the Indian experience’, in Mapping Women’s Empowerment: experiences from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan edited by Firdous Azim and Maheen Sultan, Dhaka: BRAC Development Institute and The University Press Limited, pp 39- 60.

‘Engendering Governance: a preliminary enquiry into formal and informal institutions’ in Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, edited by Smita Mishra Panda, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2008, pp 249- 264.

Ratna M. Sudarshan and Rina Bhattacharya 2004 ‘Chronic poverty and gendered patterns of intra household resource allocation: a preliminary enquiry’, in Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in India. 2006. edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta and Andrew Shepherd, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp 222-247.  

J.B.G. Tilak and Ratna M. Sudarshan.  2001.  Private Schooling in Rural India.  in Abusaleh Shariff and Maithreyi Krishnaraj (edited) 2007 State, Markets and Inequalities: Human Development in Rural India, New Delhi: Orient Longman.

‘New partnerships in research: activists and think tanks, an illustration from the NCAER, New Delhi’. 2000. in Diane Stone (ed) Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network. London: Routledge, p. 87-103.  

 ‘Educational status of Girls and Women: the Emerging Scenario’ 2000. in Rekha Wazir (ed) The Gender Gap in Basic Education: NGOs as change Agents. New Delhi: Sage Publications,  p 38-79 adapted in Writing the women’s movement: a reader edited by Mala Khullar, Zubaan 2005, p 249-268. 

Abusaleh Shariff and Ratna Sudarshan. 1996. `Elementary Education and Health in Rural India: Some Indicators'. 1996. In Sites of Change ed. N. Rao, L. Rurup and R. Sudarshan. Delhi: UNDP-FES, p. 45-117.