Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   • Jacques Charmes

   Pages 1-9

3. Informality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. A Brief History of 50 Years of Conceptualisation and Measurement of the Informal Economy

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 13-36

   3. Trends and Characteristics of the Informal Economy and Its Components

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 37-92

   4. Policies and Actions Addressing Populations Depending on the Informal Economy

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 93-119

4. Solidarities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Community, Individualism and Social Capital, the Political Economy of Transfers

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 123-140

5. Unpaid Care Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Definition and Measurement of Work and Unpaid Care Work

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 143-157

   3. Unpaid Care Work Across the World as Measured by Time-Use Surveys

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 159-185

   4. What Women Are Worth? Valuation of the Care Economy in Various Regions of the World

      • Jacques Charmes

      Pages 187-216

6. Back Matter

   Pages 217-224

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This book provides the latest empirical data on the three forms of resilience: informality, solidarities and unpaid care-work. It uncovers and quantifies these three forms of resilience that are generally invisible or ill recognised, whereas these play a major role in the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable populations. The book shows how the slow but constant unveiling of these forms over the past four decades has gradually changed our vision of progress and development and is impacting the norms and concepts that shape our vision of the economy and society. The book also emphasizes the role of informal economy through explaining the origins of the concept, its definitions and the methods of data collection and measurement. As such the book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers in population studies, economics, and international development.

• Social protection and care
• Political economy
• Economic and social instability
• Social capital and quality of life
• Resilience

• IRD University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France

  Jacques Charmes

Jacques Charmes is an economist and statistician. Currently emeritus research director at the French Scientific Research Institute for Development (IRD), at the Centre for Population and Development (CEPED: University Paris Descartes-Ined-IRD), he was until recently director of the Department of Social and Health Sciences at this institute, and professor of economics at the University of Versailles and at the Institute for Political Science (Sciences Po) in Paris. He is currently research expert for the EU project Research, Network and Support Facility (RNSF) on “Support to enhance livelihoods for people dependent on the informal economy and to improve social inclusion of marginalised and vulnerable persons”.

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