Gender, time use, and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by C. Mark Blackden and Quentin Wodon.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Blackden, C. Mark, 1954-

Wodon, Quentin.

Series:

World Bank working paper 1726-5878 ; no. 73.

World Bank working paper, 1726-5878 ; no. 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Poverty.

Time management.

Women.

Economic conditions.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions.

Time management--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--1960-.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

xiii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2006]

Summary:

Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.

The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and other dimensions of development in Africa such as education and child labor.

Contents:

Gender, time use, and poverty: introduction

Gender and time poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

A review of empirical evidence on time use in Africa from UN-sponsored surveys

Measuring time poverty and analyzing its determinants: concepts and application to Guinea

Labor shortages despite underemployment? seasonality in time use in Malawi

Poverty reduction from full employment: a time use approach

Assessing the welfare of orphans in Rwanda: poverty, work, schooling, and health.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821365614

OCLC:

62872504

Publisher Number:

9780821365618