Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs and thereby increasing the gains from trade.

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

Breast-feeding is the most important form of infant nutrition. Unfortunately there has been a steady decline in breast-feeding practices in the post industrialized era. Breast milk substitutes, a major threat to breast-feeding, are indeed a big business.

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.