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.

STRONG preference for sons over daughters exists in the Indian subcontinent, east Asia, north Africa and west Asia unlike in the western countries [Muthurayappa et al 1997, Lancet 1990, Okun 1996].

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