Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries
Informality, Solidarities and Carework
Authors: Charmes, Jacques
Free Preview- Describes how inter-household transfers play the role of non-existing public social transfers in developing countries
- Shows the importance of a social capital measured through inter-households transfers
- Highlights the work mainly devoted by women to household chores and child and adult care
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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”.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-9
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A Brief History of 50 Years of Conceptualisation and Measurement of the Informal Economy
Pages 13-36
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Trends and Characteristics of the Informal Economy and Its Components
Pages 37-92
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Policies and Actions Addressing Populations Depending on the Informal Economy
Pages 93-119
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Community, Individualism and Social Capital, the Political Economy of Transfers
Pages 123-140
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries
- Book Subtitle
- Informality, Solidarities and Carework
- Authors
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- Jacques Charmes
- Series Title
- Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
- Series Volume
- 10
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-04076-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-04076-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-04075-8
- Series ISSN
- 2543-0041
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 224
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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