The last four decades of Indian history is marked with rapid economic growth along with a rise in population with increasing rates of urba

The state of West Bengal has a population of 9.03 crores of which 19.98 percent live below the poverty line.

Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.

The paper examines women’s economic empowerment in Asia, with a particular focus on South Asia.

The history of the development of a new scientific or medical technology is a story of science in the making. In this paper we attempt to trace the development of the anti-hCG vaccine over the past 20 years, using controversy as a methodological entry point into the history.

Both as a concept and as a rallying point for gender-based concerns, the emergence of reproductive choice is a relatively new phenomenon in the area of population policy. For decades on end, population policy had been primarily, if not solely, concerned with the regulation and control of human fe

In 1991, an article on the Maternity Care Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, reported a substantial decline in direct obstetric deaths in the intervention area, but not in the control area. The decline was attributed primarily to the posting of midwives at the village level.