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This Research and Policy Brief summarizes selected findings from the UNRISD project Political and Social Economy of Care. The project included six in-depth country studies from three regions: South Africa and Tanzania; Argentina and Nicaragua; and India and the Republic of Korea. Despite its economic value, unpaid care work is not included in labour force surveys. Nor is it brought into the calculation of GDP. When care work is decently paid and protected, it can meet the interests of both workers and users of services. But this is not often the case.