Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea

Bardasi, Elena; Wodon, Quentin

doi:10.1080/13545701.2010.508574

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“…Therefore, the actual time daily spent on biogas production might be more important than the other benefits of biogas. Moreover, spending additional time on biogas production can pose significant problems, especially for rural women who are already strapped for time (i.e., below time poverty line) [1,2,53]. Ignoring the importance of time for its operation and focusing on the general benefits, namely on reduction of indoor air pollution, deforestation, and its slurry use alone, may not help in the adoption and use of the technology.…”

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Problems with Biogas Implementation in Developing Countries from the Perspective of Labor Requirements

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Most households in rural developing countries depend on firewood from public forests or agricultural bio-wastes for cooking. Public forests, though, are declining due to an increasing population and inefficient use of wood. Use of agricultural wastes on the other hand involves loss of soil nutrients since these resources are used as a substitute for inorganic fertilizers. Biogas energy can be an alternative in providing clean energy for cooking as well as improving soil fertility with the slurry. However, the labor spent on producing biogas can limit its use as a source of energy and fertilizers. Therefore, this study aims to determine the labor requirement of different mono and co-digestion biogas energy systems. The assessment is made by using simple models involving different schemes of resources collection and transportation based on reported relevant literature. The analysis shows that biogas production can be labor intensive when transportation of feedstock, water, and slurry is involved. Transporting these resources over a one kilometer (km) distance requires about ten times the amount of time spent on firewood collection and transportation. The largest part of the time for biogas production activities is spent on water collection and transportation. Low labor biogas production is possible only if all the resources are available nearby (not transported). One of the advantages of the biogas energy system is to use the slurry for soil enrichment. However, this can only be realized when the slurry is converted to compost or directly applied on nearby lands. In general, biogas production involving resources (feedstock, water and slurry) transportation is not a viable alternative to save the time spent on the traditional use of firewood. However, a community biogas system involving resource system integration is an option to provide clean energy with acceptable labor requirements of production.

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“…Various analyses of time-use data have demonstrated that women and men living in income-poor households spend more time in unpaid work than in nonpoor households, given that poverty is associated with lack of infrastructure and limited access to care services, frequently leading to overwork (Budlender 2008;Hirway 2010a). Time-use data can show the time-related constraints of the poor in terms of both time stress (overwork) and time allocation, thus informing the provision and allocation of public infrastructure (Elena Bardasi and Quentin Wodon 2010;Hirway 2010a). Time-use data has also been used to evaluate poverty alleviation policies that impose conditions on women (usually, that children attend school and healthcare check-ups) in exchange for cash transfers, indicating that these time costs are nontrivial and in some cases might offset transferred income (Sarah Gammage 2010).…”

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Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

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2011

Feminist Economics

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This study takes stock of how advocacy for time-use surveys (TUS) has been framed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, which urged countries to regularly conduct TUS in order to quantify unpaid care work, and how conducive the call for action has been for the effective use of this data to inform gender-sensitive policy. Findings suggest that obstacles to progress in using time-use data to inform policy include: an overemphasis on accounting for women's unpaid work within the framework of the United Nations System of National Accounts; a neglect of a clear distributive justice agenda tied to measuring and valuing unpaid work; and inadequate design of some TUS. However, there are now signs of emerging new analytical frameworks and agendas that link time-use data collection more directly to policy. These agendas are likely to be more fruitful in promoting the use of time-use data in policymaking.

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“…Overall, women put considerably more time toward household sustenance (chores and fetching firewood and water) and direct care. Time-use studies from other parts of sub-Saharan Africa also point to the stark gender inequality in the division of labor where household work is mainly women's responsibility with very little assistance from men (Bardasi & Wodon, 2010;Karamba & Winters, 2015;Pitcher, 1996). 5 Household size and composition, and infrastructure are other factors that may exacerbate the overall work burden.…”

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“…Difficulties in assigning a monetary value to household activities such as cleaning, cooking, and care work group discussions and interviews conducted in 2013 in the Nampula region suggest that most smallholders are constrained by seed availability and other inputs required for cultivating the land. 11 Data from time-use surveys suggests that men usually have substantial more leisure time than women (Bardasi & Wodon, 2010;Arora, 2015). We, therefore, assume endogenous productivity only for the woman as she is more likely to be time-poor compared to the man and to experience falling labor productivity due to excessive workload.…”

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Gender norms and intrahousehold allocation of labor in Mozambique: A CGE application to household and agricultural economics

Arora

Rada

2020

Agricultural Economics

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We model intrahousehold dynamics in two rural provinces of Mozambique through the lens of computable general equilibrium (CGE) methods. The main features of our modeling framework are as follows: (a) a household social accounting matrix that captures allocation of labor and resources, and transfers among household members; (b) the explicit use of social norms in labor allocation across gender; (c) a mechanism that links agricultural production to time poverty; (d) identification of leisure as a commodity that is being produced. Simulation results and sensitivity analyses show how social norms interact with the allocation of labor and resources at the household level to impact farm production or limit the gains from technological improvements.

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Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea

Cited by 120 publications

References 17 publications

Problems with Biogas Implementation in Developing Countries from the Perspective of Labor Requirements

Problems with Biogas Implementation in Developing Countries from the Perspective of Labor Requirements

Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

Gender norms and intrahousehold allocation of labor in Mozambique: A CGE application to household and agricultural economics

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