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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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