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

• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2010.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/21
• Soggetto topico: Wages - Housewives - Developing countries; Sex discrimination against women - Developing countries; Poor - Developing countries
• Altri autori: AntonopoulosRania <1960-> HirwayIndira
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Unpaid work and the economy
• ISBN: 1-282-76543-4; 9786612765438; 0-230-25055-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816856403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II