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A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...
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The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
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...
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Does access to microfinance help or hinder women’s empowerment?Almost everywhere, women are underrepresented in labour markets compared to men. While labour force participation among women of working age (FLFP)...
Book
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet NamThis 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...
Book Chapter
Characteristics of the VARHS data and other data sourcesPart of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Book Chapter
Rural transformationPart of Book Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Working Paper
A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin AmericaLatin 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...
Policy Brief
Six sets of policy actions to promote social mobilityPromoting 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...