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Understanding Poverty: Insights Emerging from Time Use of the Poor

In: Unpaid Work and the Economy

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  • Indira Hirway

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It is now widely recognized that to view poverty only as income poverty is far from adequate, because low income/consumption is only one dimension of the multiple dimensions of poverty. The other dimensions of poverty include low human capabilities (human poverty), vulnerability, exclusion and marginalization, chronic nature of poverty and so on, on which there is extensive literature. It is usually argued that a major reason why the poor are poor is that they possess no or low capital, where capital consists of: (1) physical capital; (2) financial capital; (3) human capital; and (4) social capital. Because of their low capital base the poor are restricted in terms of their access to better opportunities in the economy. That is, their access to productive employment and income declines considerably, as they do not have an adequate base of capital.

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  • Indira Hirway, 2010. "Understanding Poverty: Insights Emerging from Time Use of the Poor," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rania Antonopoulos & Indira Hirway (ed.), Unpaid Work and the Economy, chapter 2, pages 22-57, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25055-0_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230250550_2
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    1. Johnston, Deborah & Stevano, Sara & Malapit, Hazel J. & Hull, Elizabeth & Kadiyala, Suneetha, 2018. "Review: Time Use as an Explanation for the Agri-Nutrition Disconnect: Evidence from Rural Areas in Low and Middle-Income Countries," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 8-18.
    2. Indira Hirway, 2021. "Conducting Time-Use Surveys Employing Rigorous Methods to Produce Quality Data," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(4), pages 883-898, December.
    3. Sirisha C. Naidu & Lyn Ossome, 2016. "Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women’s Labour in India," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 5(1), pages 50-76, April.
    4. Indira Hirway, 2018. "Translating the SDG Commitments into Reality: Time Use Data for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Global South," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 12(1), pages 93-108, April.
    5. Sara Yeatman & Stephanie Chamberlin & Kathryn Dovel, 2018. "Women's (health) work: A population-based, cross-sectional study of gender differences in time spent seeking health care in Malawi," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(12), pages 1-14, December.
    6. Neetha N., 2020. "Empowered or Entangled: Agency and Choice in Women’s Employment in India," South Asian Survey, , vol. 27(2), pages 98-116, September.
    7. Sara Stevano & Suneetha Kadiyala & Deborah Johnston & Hazel Malapit & Elizabeth Hull & Sofia Kalamatianou, 2019. "Time-Use Analytics: An Improved Way of Understanding Gendered Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 1-22, July.

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