This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.
This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equali...
Conventional exchange rate models are based on the fundamental hypothesis that, in the long run, real exchange rates adjust in such a way as to make countries equally competitive, eliminating trade surpluses and deficits. The contention of this book, based on the theoretical underpinnings of absolute competitive advantage, is that movements of long-run exchange rate are determined by real unit costs of tradable goods. According to this argument, the empirical finding of persistent trade imbalances is not the exception, but rather an anticipated outcome. When competitive absolute advantage...
Conventional exchange rate models are based on the fundamental hypothesis that, in the long run, real exchange rates adjust in such a way as to make c...
With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets can potentially influence the ways in which men and women are affected in times of economic crisis.
Looking at the economy through a gender lens, the contributors investigate the antecedents and consequences of the ongoing crisis as well as the recovery policies adopted in selected countries....
With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The v...
