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Pregnancy and Homicide

The movie Gone Girl claims homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women. Is this true? And can we trust international performance rankings seen in performance indices?

The movie Gone Girl claims homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women. Ruth Alexander asks Dr Katherine Gold from the University of Michigan if this is true.
And can we trust country rankings seen in the growing number of performance indices? We speak to the Economist’s international editor Helen Joyce.

(Image: Ben Affleck in a scene from Gone Girl. Credit: Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox/AP Photo )

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10 minutes

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Tue 18 Nov 2014 09:50GMT

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  • Sat 15 Nov 2014 14:50GMT
  • Sun 16 Nov 2014 05:50GMT
  • Sun 16 Nov 2014 23:50GMT
  • Tue 18 Nov 2014 09:50GMT

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