
Mainstreaming Unpaid Work
Time-use Data in Developing Policies
Indira Hirway(Editor)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 8. June 2017
Book
Hardback
409 pages
978-0-19-946825-6 (ISBN)
Description
Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid work done and the manner in which its burden is distributed have important implications for the well-being of individuals and households, as well as for any economys growth and dynamism.
This book establishes that there is an urgent need to measure unpaid work and incorporate it in analysing the critical concerns of an economy. As a first step, it focuses on gathering quality statistics and methodologies required to conduct time-use surveys in moving towards integrating unpaid work in policymaking. Assessing various time-use surveys from the global South Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa the book moves on to address critical socioeconomic concerns such as poverty alleviation, employment, gender equality, womens empowerment, as also the overall well-being and development of a nation.
With in-depth theoretical foundations and empirical analysis, it builds the case for aggregating quality time-use data for sustainable development of the global South.
This book establishes that there is an urgent need to measure unpaid work and incorporate it in analysing the critical concerns of an economy. As a first step, it focuses on gathering quality statistics and methodologies required to conduct time-use surveys in moving towards integrating unpaid work in policymaking. Assessing various time-use surveys from the global South Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa the book moves on to address critical socioeconomic concerns such as poverty alleviation, employment, gender equality, womens empowerment, as also the overall well-being and development of a nation.
With in-depth theoretical foundations and empirical analysis, it builds the case for aggregating quality time-use data for sustainable development of the global South.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-946825-6 (9780199468256)
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Person
Indira Hirway is Director and Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives (CFDA), Ahmedabad. She is also National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.
Editor
, Director and Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives (CFDA), Ahmedabad
Content
PART I PRODUCING QUALITY TIME-USE STATISTICS: ISSUES RELATED TO METHODOLOGY AND HARMONIZATION OF CONCEPTS AND METHODS; PART II ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR ADDRESSING CRITICAL CONCERNS