| Description |
xxx, 336 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Wages -- Housewives -- Developing countries.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Developing countries.
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Poor -- Developing countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Antonopoulos, Rania, 1960-
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Hirway, Indira.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780230217300 (alk. paper) |
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0230217303 (alk. paper) |
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