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