Gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: edited by C. Mark Blackden and Quentin Wodon
Contributors: Blackden, C. Mark, 1954-; Wodon, Quentin
Series: World Bank working paper -- no. 73
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Poverty -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions; Time management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Description: "The papers in this volume contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and other dimensions of development in Africa such as education and child labor."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Gender, time use, and poverty: introduction; title: Gender and time poverty in sub-Saharan Africa; title: A review of empirical evidence on time use in Africa from UN-sponsored surveys; title: Measuring time poverty and analyzing its determinants: concepts and application to Guinea; title: Labor shortages despite underemployment? seasonality in time use in Malawi; title: Poverty reduction from full employment: a time use approach; title: Assessing the welfare of orphans in Rwanda: poverty, work, schooling, and health