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Ed Glaeser on the perfect city, the demons of density and what makes cities work
What does a perfect city look like in a low- or middle-income country – and how do you get there?

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C’est la Vie! How a popular West African edutainment series changed minds, but not behaviours
A West African TV series in Senegal led to short- and medium-term gains in knowledge and attitudes around violence against women and sexual and reproductive health, though impacts on behaviours were limited, and a podcast version extending content during COVID-19 was ineffective.

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Two decades on: The enduring costs of childhood abduction for women in Uganda
Twenty years after the Lord's Resistance Army conflict ended in northern Uganda, women who were abducted as children during the war and subsequently released show significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, reduced social support, and heightened stress reactivity. In striking contrast, standard economic measures suggest rough parity with non-abducted peers. Re...

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Can community health teams reduce preventable hospitalisations?
When El Salvador deployed community health teams, the result was not simply more primary care – it was better-organised care, with more prevention, less infectious disease, and fewer patients ending up in hospital for conditions that should never have progressed that far.

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How violence reshapes Mexico’s workforce
Rising homicide rates in Mexico have left aggregate employment largely unchanged – but beneath this apparent stability, violence is reshaping who works and where, holding back the labour market and undermining productivity.

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