Even though sanitation was es

The purpose of this report is to explore the digital gender gap in terms of accessing and competency of using ICTs and how this gap can be bridged by using appropriat

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

A preference for sons or for more sons than daughters has been documented in several countries in the world.

The two issues in the field of fertility that have received widest publicity in the recent times in India are the rapidly growing number of clinics that are performing amniocentesis, which is followed by female foeticide and the birth of a test-tube baby in Bombay.

The expectant and lactating mothers are considered as nutritionally vulnerable group especially in the developing countries of the world. Due to nursing process mothers are subjected to nutritional stresses.

Infertility has been relatively neglected as both a health problem and a subject for social science research in South Asia, as in the developing world more generally. The general thrust of both programmes and research has been on the correlates of high fertility and its regulation rather than on