Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time-Use and Poverty in Developing Countries

Contents......Page 6
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Notes on Contributors......Page 19
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 21
Introduction......Page 24
Introduction......Page 32
Unpaid work and the macroeconomy......Page 36
Existing methodologies on data collection, production and analysis on unpaid work......Page 40
Unpaid work in the context of development......Page 45
Introduction......Page 53
Understanding poverty through time use......Page 54
Time-use statistics in India......Page 61
Time use of ultra-poor and non-poor......Page 65
Appendix......Page 82
Introduction......Page 89
Time-use inequalities matter......Page 90
Methodology......Page 91
Results......Page 93
Conclusions......Page 103
Introduction......Page 107
Data, time-use activity classification and contextualization of our variables of choice......Page 109
Gender analysis of average time spent on unpaid work......Page 117
Tobit estimation of the determinants of time spent on unpaid work......Page 122
Conclusions......Page 131
Appendix......Page 137
Introduction......Page 143
The rise of unpaid care......Page 144
Unpaid HIV/AIDS care is gendered......Page 145
Unpaid HIV/AIDS care and poverty......Page 151
Conclusions and recommendations......Page 164
Introduction......Page 171
Statistical invisibility of unpaid work......Page 172
Interpreting time-use data in India......Page 176
Implications of time-use statistics for public investment......Page 179
Summary and policy conclusions......Page 189
Introduction......Page 194
Unpaid work, the economy and poverty......Page 195
The state as employer of last resort (ELR): historical foundations of ELR and employment guarantee programs (EGP) in the North and Global South......Page 198
Gender-awareness of EGP......Page 200
The case of a social sector public works program: evidence from South Africa......Page 202
A pleasant surprise: policy space for gender-aware design within the EPWP......Page 203
Concluding remarks......Page 207
Introduction......Page 212
The Buenos Aires TUS......Page 213
Lessons learned from the methodological approach......Page 222
Selected results from the Buenos Aires TUS and their relation to methodological features......Page 224
Concluding remarks......Page 238
Appendix......Page 244
Introduction......Page 246
Technical issues in conducting TUS in Africa......Page 251
Political and analytical issues raised by TUS in Africa......Page 256
Conclusion......Page 258
UN inconsistencies and the invisible woman......Page 261
The SNA: warts and all......Page 263
Removing the invisibility: time use → valuation →
satellite accounts → full integration – the Philippines
experience......Page 268
The way forward: towards a tipping point......Page 279
Introduction......Page 283
Scope and approach of assessment......Page 284
Assessment of TUS......Page 290
Assessment and inferences for the future......Page 311
Appendix......Page 332
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G......Page 358
H......Page 359
L......Page 360
M......Page 361
P......Page 362
S......Page 363
T......Page 364
U......Page 365
W......Page 366
Z......Page 367