Describes how inter-household transfers play the role of non-existing public social transfers in developing countries
Shows the importance of a social capital measured through inter-households transfers
Highlights the work mainly devoted by women to household chores and child and adult care

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part 1: Informality.- Chapter 1: History of a Concept.- Chapter 2: Concepts, Methodologies, Sources of Data.- Chapter 3: Trends and Characteristics of Informal Employment and its Components.- Chapter 4: Role of Informal Employment in Economic Development and Development Policies.- Part 2: Solidarities.- Chapter 5.- Community, Individualism and Social Capital.- Chapter 6: Concepts, Methodologies and Sources of Data.- Chapter 7: Transfers, Remittances and Care.- Chapter 8: Towards a Social Protection Floor for All.- Part 3: Women's Activities and Unpaid Work.- Chapter 9: Female Participation Rates to the Labour Force and to Informal Employment: Reasons for their Underestimation.- Chapter 10: The Extended Notion of Work and The Time-Use Surveys.- Chapter 11: Feminisation of Poverty, Time Poverty and Potential For Development.- Chapter 12: Towards Recognition of Women's Work and Women's Empowerment.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- General Index.