Reading Charles Jones and Dietrich Vollrath’s Introduction to Economic Growth. Great book. But. “Gender” and “women” do not appear in the index. Nor do they appear in the text, even in the chapter on fertility and population growth. But gender does make an appearance, on page 258: “If Microsoft had not expected to be able to charge more than the tiny marginal cost of Windows 8, he would not have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in creating the first copy.” As the Supreme Court recently ruled, corporations are men too!
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- New library assistant at Sumbrungu Community Library
- Echange avec une usagère au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Community libraries of Uganda association (CoLAU) updates for May 2026
- Sumbrungu community library packed with readers, Upper East, Ghana
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture individuelle à l’école Sainte-Thérèse de Houndé
- Animation littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Bereba reading center
- Lecture et créativité au cœur de la bibliothèque de Béréba
- Séance de lecture d’un livre aux élèves
- Organisation d’une journée de contes et de devinettes à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy