Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Mahmood, Moazam, Growth, Jobs and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: No Country Left Behind. 138 pp. 2022:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <682-210>
ISBN 978-3-030-91573-5 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is in danger of being significantly left behind other regions of the world economically. Growth in SSA has been much weaker and more volatile than in other regions in the last two decades. The region contains most of the world's least developed countries: they have the lowest per capita incomes, they are structurally less developed, they are aid- (and often) food-dependent, and have the largest and deepest pockets of poverty left in the world. Meanwhile, in other developing regions of the world, such as Latin America and Asia, there has been much more progress on all these important indicators of growth and welfare. SSA alone failed to meet the challenge of halving poverty to meet its Millennium Development Goals for 2015, and is in now serious danger of not meeting its Sustainable Development Goals to eliminate poverty by 2030. This Palgrave Pivot provides a narrative for SSA that brings together growth, jobs and poverty reduction.

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Molina, Jose Alberto (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market. 269 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <682-262>
ISBN 978-3-030-99779-3 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets. It provides insight in what the quantitative effect of motherhood on the decline in mothers' earnings is, and how things differ for mothers with lower income and lower levels of education. It also sheds light on how this effect varies for different countries and/or cultural areas, and what the impact of socio-economic policies on mothers' labor supply is and how it changes in different family contexts. The book covers topics such as labor participation and hours of work, paid-work and home production, flexibility and work from home, self-employment and entrepreneurship, fertility and maternity leave, wage-penalty and career interruption, labor supply and childcare, gender norms and cultural issues, intra-household wage inequality and much more. This book provides an interesting read to economists, social scientists, policy makers and HR managers and all those interested in the subject.