The study provides critical understanding of women’s rights to livelihoods in forest sector.

IT was once thought that fertility below a level could not be achieved without changes in the material conditions of the people.

Change in the size of a population takes place due to births, deaths and migration.

In this report, we propose new measures of wanted and unwanted fertility based on actual and wanted parity progression ratios, and we apply these procedures to NFHS data for eight states in India.

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