o:9370 Socio-economic consequences of the phenomenon of missing women en ABSTRACT: The paper deals with the issue of missing women as a consequence of gender-based violence, i.e., selective birth policies and unequal access to resources, as well as the projection of the number of women and men in the two most populous countries in the world. The socio-economic consequences that gender imbalance could cause are analysed later, not only in China and India, but also beyond the borders of the mentioned countries. Today, more than ever, by connecting people into a "global village", phenomena in one part of the world cause disturbances across the planet. While progress in combating violence against women and improving support for victims is visible in many countries, new forms of violence are emerging. The Indian Nobel Prize winner and economist Amartya Sen was the first to notice that more than one hundred million women have "disappeared". The decrease in the number of women will lead, among other things, to an increase in the number of men who will live alone, marriage migration, an increase in the number of kidnapped women, forced marriages, trafficking of women, sexual exploitation and abuse of women, as well as the accumulation of bachelors' capital. Keywords: missing women phenomenon, gender-based violence. 1552099 10.5937/intrev2504178P 1552101 2217-9739 91552100 183716617 2026-04-17T06:46:30.860Z 44 yes 46 Snežana Prelević Plavšić Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Belgrade, Serbia 0009-0002-8869-9292 Jelena Vlajnić Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Belgrade, Serbia person 0000-0003-4869-7102 Marijana Mladenov Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia person 22841447 0000-0002-4574-5159 application/pdf 1212548 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:9370 no yes 16 70 92000002 211A01 International Review 3/4 178 183 2025