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Title Unpaid work and the economy : gender, time use and poverty in developing countries / edited by Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 336 pages) : illustrations
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 Osório 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wages -- Housewives -- Developing countries
Sex discrimination against women -- Developing countries
Poor -- Developing countries
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Poor
Sex discrimination against women
Wages -- Housewives
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Antonopoulos, Rania, 1960-
Hirway, Indira
ISBN 9780230250550
0230250556