Research Scholar Rania Antonopoulos is director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program at the Levy Institute. She specializes in macro-micro linkages of gender and economics, international competition, and globalization. She has served as an expert adviser and consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and, since 2002, as a co-director of the GEM-IWG Knowledge Networking Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics. Her publications include:

• Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries (co-editor), 2010;
• An Alternative Theory of Long-run Exchange Rate Determination, 2009;
• “The Unpaid Care Work–Paid Work Connection,” Working Paper No. 86, Policy Integration and Statistics Department, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2008;
• “State, Difference, Diversity: Toward a Path of Expanded Democracy and Gender Equality,” in Democracy, State, and Citizenship in Latin America, Vol. II (in Spanish), UNDP, 2008;
• Commentary on L. B. Shaw’s “Differing Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and Eldercare,” in D. B. Papadimitriou, ed., Government Spending on the Elderly, 2007; and
• “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand” (with M. Floro), Journal of Income Distribution, 2005.

In 2007, Antonopoulos oversaw the launch of an interactive website as groundwork for the knowledge-sharing initiative Economists for Full Employment; EFE seeks to link and mobilize a global community of economists, academics, public policy advocates, and nongovernmental organizations, with the principal objective of placing decent job creation at the center of development and macroeconomic strategies. In 2006–07, she headed up a team of Levy Institute researchers studying the impact of public employment guarantee schemes (EGS) on pro-poor development and gender equality. The project, supported by a grant from the UNDP, consisted of a pilot study exploring the synergies between EGS and unpaid work—including unpaid care work—in India and South Africa. Currently, she is working with the National Women’s Institute of Mexico (INMUJERES) for the launching of a similar program whose aim is public service job creation.

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