Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries | Informality, Solidarities and Carework

Jacques Charmes

ISBN 10: 3030040755 / ISBN 13: 9783030040758

Published by Springer, 2019

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Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries | Informality, Solidarities and Carework | Jacques Charmes | Buch | Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development | xxiii | Englisch | 2019 | Springer | EAN 9783030040758 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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• Title: Dimensions of Resilience in Developing Countries | Informality, Solidarities and Carework
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030040755
• ISBN 13: 9783030040758
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 19D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 586 grams
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Synopsis

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 Author

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”.