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A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid careIn the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...
In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...
The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler. While all of us, rich and poor, faced the fear and...
Almost everywhere, women are underrepresented in labour markets compared to men. While labour force participation among women of working age (FLFP)...
Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and...
Promoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility. Policies of human capital...
At the UNU-WIDER offices here in Helsinki, Finland, the summer holidays are almost upon us. Looking at the list of new UNU-WIDER publications, it is...
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The household survey data used in...
Part of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Part of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Improving the position of women continues to be an important concern in development. As we strive to make better living standards possible for people...
In recognizing that women’s participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion...