BIO

Indira Hirway is the director of the Center for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, India and a professor of Economics. She has served as the chairperson of the Technical Committee on the first (pilot) time-use survey in India (CSO, Government of India) and was responsible for developing the objectives and methodology of the survey. As a member of the expert committee on Classification of Activities (CSO, Government of India), she designed the time-use classification. As a team member of the Regional Resource Group at UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Hirway was involved in the preparation of the Guide Book on Integrating Unpaid Work into National Policies, and as a resource person at UN-ESCAP, she has been involved with training and capacity building. She is also a member of the Expert Group on time-use studies at UNSD, New York and has served as consultant to UNDP at Manila, the Department of Statistics at UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, UNIFEM at UN-ESCAP at Bangkok. A member of the Executive Committee of IATUR as well as of GEM-IWG, Hirway has written extensively on time-use studies and edited two volumes on this subject. Some of her recent work includes (1) Application of Time Use Statistics (Report of the International Seminar on the subject), edited by Hirway and published by the CSO, Government of India and UNIFEM, New Delhi 2003, (2) Classification of Time Use Activities, a document prepared for the CSO, Government of India, and (3) Expanding Statistical Paradigm: Towards a Complete View of Economy for Effective Macro Policies, Paper to be published in the forthcoming Issue of Economic and Political Weekly, India.