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The themes of resilience and agency in the face of adversity and at the point of transition from one stage to another recur in these reviews of recent books, each one of which has important things to say to the readers of IJEE. Bauman and Rivers celebrate the opportunities offered by the digital age while not downplaying the potential risks to the mental health of children and young people. Lamericks, Danby, Bateman and Ekberg use exciting, child-centred methods to access the experiences and perspectives on mental health of young people in a range of institutional settings. This innovative book has a wealth of information that is relevant to practitioners and researchers alike. Next, two books, one quantitative and the other qualitative, demonstrate convincingly the extreme impact of poverty on children's well-being. Evans, Ruane and Southall, members of the Radical Statistics Group, argue that powerful individuals and institutions control statistical data to serve their own ends. In fact, the authors propose, governments often mislead us through their manipulation of statistical findings. Consequently, physical and mental health difficulties, especially among poor families, are perpetuated. Kerry Hudson gives the inside view of the child growing up in poverty and the longstanding impact on her emotional and social development. Through her own determination and resilience, she not only survived but became a successful writer. However, on her return to the places of her childhood, she found that many families continue to experience dire poverty and deprivation. Her book is a moving testament to her journey and the people who helped her along the way but it is also a plea for action to be taken in the present day. In the context of higher education, Lee and LaDousa report on the continuing patterns of discrimination experienced by students from non-traditional backgrounds, not only from fellow students but also from the universities themselves. The section on the institutional lens to marginalisation gives disturbing insights into the ways in which inequalities are perpetuated. Finally, from a more theoretical perspective, Paul Downes presents the case for a spatial phenomenology in our conception of human development. Transitions between different spatial systems, according to his theory, are a means of understanding agency. He presents a powerful argument that challenges the domination of time over space by developmental psychologists. By contrast, he considers movements from one space or system to another as offering a much deeper understanding of agency and lived experience. Each book is challenging and offers us new ways of thinking about our field. I hope that you find the reviews insightful. If you would like to review books for IJEE, please write to me and let me know your areas of interest. ; N/A

This paper investigates the effect of financial development on government bond returns in developed and emerging markets under different market conditions. Using a quantile regression framework for quarterly panel data from 28 countries over 1999–2015, our results reveal that the effect of financial development on government bond returns (changes in bond prices) differs according to conditions in the market and between developed and emerging markets. The effect is positive and significant only in good market conditions for developed markets. For emerging markets financial development has a positive and significant effect for good market conditions but the effect is negative and significant for bad market conditions. ; fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed|

Despite the many benefits that energy consumption brings to the economy, consuming energy also leads nations to expend more resources on environmental pollution. Therefore, energy efficiency has been proposed as a solution to improve national economic competitiveness and sustainability. However, the growth in energy demand is accelerating while policy efforts to boost energy efficiency are slowing. To solve this problem, the efficiency gains in countries where energy consumption efficiency is of the greatest concern such as China, India, the United States, and Europe, especially, emerging economies, is central. Additionally, governments must take greater policy actions. Therefore, this paper studied 25 countries from Asia, the Americas, and Europe to develop a method combining the grey method (GM) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) slack-based measure model (SMB) to measure and forecast the energy efficiency, so that detailed energy efficiency evaluation can be made from the past to the future ; moreover, this method can be extended to more countries around the world. The results of this study reveal that European countries have a higher energy efficiency than countries in Americas (except the United States) and Asian countries. Our findings also show that an excess of total energy consumption is the main reason causing the energy inefficiency in most countries. This study contributes to policymaking and strategy makers by sharing the understanding of the status of energy efficiency and providing insights for the future.

M. Pierre-Yves Saunier est professeur agrégé au département des sciences historiques de l'Université Laval à Québec. Cet entretien a été réalisé par Vincent Houle, doctorant en histoire en cotutelle entre l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (SIRICE) et l'Université de Montréal, Solène Maillet, doctorante en histoire à l'Université de Montréal et à l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco, Paris), et Guillemette Martin, titulaire d'un Doctorat en Histoire contemporaine obtenu en 2013 à l'IHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine- Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle) et enseignante et chercheuse dans le Département d'Histoire de la Universidad Iberoamericana à Mexico.