Working Paper

South Africa frequently experiences rolling blackouts (‘load shedding’) due to shortfalls in electricity generation. This is a common problem across the developing world, and yet the developmental impacts of insufficient and unstable electricity...

• Electricity
• Mortality
• Synthetic control method

Book

• Pandemic
• COVID-19
• socioeconomic consequences

Book Chapter

Part of Book Towards Gender Equity in Development

• Missing women
• Mortality
• Gender

Working Paper

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically ‘missing’ worldwide. To explain the global ‘missing women’ phenomenon...

• Missing women
• Mortality
• Gender