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Unpaid Work and the Economy : Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries / edited by R. Antonopoulos, I. Hirway.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Development economics.
- Regional economics.
- Space in economics.
- Economic development.
- Sex.
- International economic relations.
- Sociology.
- Development Economics.
- Regional and Spatial Economics.
- Development Studies.
- Gender Studies.
- International Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Development Economics.
- Regional and Spatial Economics.
- Development Studies.
- Gender Studies.
- International Economics.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.
- Contents:
- Unpaid work and the economy / Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway
- Understanding poverty : insights emerging from time use of the poor / Indira Hirway
- Gender inequalities in allocating time to paid and unpaid work : evidence from Bolivia / Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael Guerreiro Osorio and Joana Costa
- Unpaid work, poverty and unemployment : a gender perspective from South Africa / Emel Memis and Rania Antonopoulos
- Unpaid HIV/AIDS care, gender and poverty : exploring the links / Olagoke Akintola
- Public investment and unpaid work in India : selective evidence from time-use data / Lekha S. Chakraborty
- Unpaid work and unemployment : engendering public job creation / Rania Antonopoulos
- Lessons from the Buenos Aires time-use survey : a methodological assessment / Valeria Esquivel
- Issues in time-use measurement and valuation : lessons from African experience on technical and analytical issues / Jacques Charmes
- Removing the cloak of invisibility : integrating unpaid household services in national economic accounts : the Philippines experience / Solia Collas-Monsod
- Time-use surveys in developing countries : an assessment / Indira Hirway.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612765438
- 9781282765436
- 1282765434
- 9780230250550
- 0230250556
- OCLC:
- 608022007
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