Fiscal Policy for the Unpaid Care Economy

• Start date फ़रवरी., 2019
• Completion date दिसम्बर, 2021
• Sponsor Self-initiative (research collaboration with American University, Washington DC)
• Project leader Lekha Chakraborty
• Focus

  The statistical invisibility of the care economy is a matter of concern. The time use survey published by the National Statistical Office in 2020 for all states is an innovative dataset to understand the economic activities under the Systems of National Accounts, 1993, which extended the production boundary to incorporate the household and societal levels of unpaid economic activities. These inferences have policy implications for gender budgeting. The paper will provide analytical backup (on the care economy) to the ongoing gender budgeting initiatives by the Ministry of Finance.