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Titolo: | Unpaid Work and the Economy [[electronic resource] ] : Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries / / edited by R. Antonopoulos, I. Hirway |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2010. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
Disciplina: | 331.4/21 |
331.421 | |
Soggetto topico: | Development economics |
Regional economics | |
Spatial economics | |
Economic policy | |
Sociology | |
International economics | |
Development Economics | |
Regional/Spatial Science | |
Development Policy | |
Gender Studies | |
International Economics | |
Sociology, general | |
Persona (resp. second.): | AntonopoulosR |
HirwayI | |
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 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
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.: | 9910785155703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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