"In many developing countries, the workforce is overwhelmingly informal — and informal employment is here to stay. What is needed, most fundamentally, is a new economic paradigm: a model of a hybrid economy that embraces the traditional and the modern, the small scale and the big scale, the informal and the formal."
In 2011, Marty was awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India in recognition of her work around issues of employment, poverty, and gender in India. Padma Awards are India’s highest civilian awards.
