This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty …” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development … outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the “double workday” of women, has long been a staple of discussion of women …

such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted … at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen in the literature formal discussions and measurement of the concept of … time poverty alongside the techniques used for measuring consumption poverty. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood …

poverty and inequality of an increase in the working hours of the population up to what is referred to as a full employment … reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even … at full employment levels, poverty would remain massive, and the higher workload that the full employment scenario would …