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Unpaid Work and the Economy
Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries
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Unpaid Work and the Economy
Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Unpaid Work and the Economy
- 2 Understanding Poverty: Insights Emerging from Time Use of the Poor
- 3 Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia
- 4 Unpaid Work, Poverty and Unemployment: A Gender Perspective from South Africa
- 5 Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care, Gender and Poverty: Exploring the Links
- 6 Public Investment and Unpaid Work in India: Selective Evidence from Time-Use Data
- 7 Unpaid Work and Unemployment: Engendering Public Job Creation
- 8 Lessons from the Buenos Aires Time-Use Survey: A Methodological Assessment
- 9 Issues in Time-Use Measurement and Valuation: Lessons from African Experience on Technical and Analytical Issues
- 10 Removing the Cloak of Invisibility: Integrating Unpaid Household Services in National Economic Accounts – the Philippines Experience
- 11 Time-Use Surveys in Developing Countries: An Assessment
- Index
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