Our 5 Favorite Links of the Week from across the Development Space, June 15

Empowering workers – street vendors, trash pickers, and mothers working from home.

As India's economy grows, its poorest residents grow sick under mountains of waste ● Hari Kumar and Kai Schultz for the New York Times
What can the private sector do to empower women in the workplace? ● Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for UN Women blog
Government data are ever more important to economic research – that is better for some economists than others ● The Economist
How does financial training influence decision making for street vendors in India and the Philippines? ● Dean Karlan, Benjamin N. Roth, and Sendhil Mullainathan for VoxDev
How can Nepal's policymakers prevent further deaths from, Chhaupadi, a tradition of banishment of women during menstruation? ● Pragya Lamsal's blog