Unpaid Work and the Economy

1. Front Matter

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2. Unpaid Work and the Economy

   • Rania Antonopoulos, Indira Hirway

   Pages 1-21

3. Understanding Poverty: Insights Emerging from Time Use of the Poor

   • Indira Hirway

   Pages 22-57

4. Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia

   • Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael G. Osório, Joana Costa

   Pages 58-75

5. Unpaid Work, Poverty and Unemployment: A Gender Perspective from South Africa

   • Emel Memis, Rania Antonopoulos

   Pages 76-111

6. Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care, Gender and Poverty: Exploring the Links

   • Olagoke Akintola

   Pages 112-139

7. Public Investment and Unpaid Work in India: Selective Evidence from Time-Use Data

   • Lekha S. Chakraborty

   Pages 140-162

8. Unpaid Work and Unemployment: Engendering Public Job Creation

   • Rania Antonopoulos

   Pages 163-180

9. Lessons from the Buenos Aires Time-Use Survey: A Methodological Assessment

   • Valeria Esquivel

   Pages 181-214

10. Issues in Time-Use Measurement and Valuation: Lessons from African Experience on Technical and Analytical Issues

    • Jacques Charmes

    Pages 215-229

11. Removing the Cloak of Invisibility: Integrating Unpaid Household Services in National Economic Accounts — the Philippines Experience

    • Solita Collas-Monsod

    Pages 230-251

12. Time-Use Surveys in Developing Countries: An Assessment

    • Indira Hirway

    Pages 252-324

13. Back Matter

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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.

• AIDS
• care
• Developing Countries
• gender
• Nation
• poverty
• service
• unemployment
• development policy

• ‘Gender Equality and the Economy’, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA

  Rania Antonopoulos

• Center for Development Alternatives, India

  Indira Hirway

RANIA ANTONOPOULOS is Director of the 'Gender Equality and the Economy' program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations Development program and is codirector of two global networks, the Gender Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG) and the Economists for full Employment (EFE). Her most recent publications include an ILO monograph, The Unpaid Work, Paid Work Connection and two contributed chapters titled 'The Macroeconomics of HIV /AIDS' and 'State Difference, Diversity: Towards a Path of Expanded Democracy and Gender Equality'.
 
INDIRA HIRWAY is Director of the Center for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, (India), and a Research Associate at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. She has been a member of a number of national and international expert groups, technical advisory committees, task forces and policy making bodies. She has been Visiting Fellow at Erasmus University, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. She is a member of two global networks, the Gender Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG) and the Economists for Full Employment (EFE). Her most recent works include Restructuring of Production and Labour under Globalization (ILO, India).

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