Unpaid work and the economy : gender, time use and poverty in developing countries / / edited by Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway.

"This volume uses unpaid work and time-use survey data (TUS) from across the global South to elucidate the need to incorporate unpaid work into economic analysis in order to better understand poverty and gender (in)equality"--Provided by publisher.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
:
TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:xxx, 336 p. :; ill.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of 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.