Developing care : recent research on the care economy and economic development

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2018-07

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This paper contextualizes and reviews recent research on unpaid care work in the Global South, with a particular focus on projects funded through the multi-donor Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program and IDRC. It offers a typology of paid and unpaid, market and non-market work activities and how they are counted—or overlooked—in current systems of National Accounts, with implications of these gaps. In the past five years, a large portfolio of projects brings unpaid care provision to the center of research on gender and development, and raises important questions about the definition of economic development itself.

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UNPAID WORK, CARE ECONOMY, WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, SOUTH OF SAHARA, GLOBAL SOUTH, SOUTH ASIA, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, GENDER ROLES, LABOUR POLICY, ECONOMIC REFORM

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/57142

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IDRC Research Results / RĂ©sultats de recherches du CRDI
2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) / Croissance de l’économie et débouchés économiques des femmes (CEDEF)