A new study by NADEL’s Professor Isabel Günther, Dr Kenneth Harttgen, and Dr Dario Meili from ETH Zurich’s Development Economics group reveals that traditional measures of gender and ethnic disparities overlook key inequalities in education. 

NADEL's Dr Kenneth Harttgen has co-authored a new paper on anemia risk among children and women in sub-Saharan Africa. 

A new study analyzes the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and local crimes rates in South Africa. It finds a particularly strong association of higher income inequality and racial heterogeneity with increased rates of violent crime. 

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