Productive activities which involve formal market transactions and command a market price are measured by official statistics in systems of national accounts and constitute the bulk of what is measured as “economic activity” and “labour force participation” at the national and international levels. The informal and subsistence activities which make up the livelihood strategies of poor people in developing countries are inadequately included. Unpaid care work within the household economy is completely omitted (Razavi and Staab, 2008).