Understanding poverty: Insights emerging from time use of the poor

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 22-57

  Hirway, Indira ^a,b  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Center for Development Alternatives   (India)

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EID: 84866450224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230250550     Document Type: Chapter

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