Since India’s independence, population stabilization has been one of the prime concerns in its development agenda.
The study aimed at examining the prevalence of child labour in the villages of East and West Jaintia Hills Districts of Meghalaya where coal mining is predominant.
This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers.
Religion has a significant relevance in the demographic study of socio-economic groups.
IT was once thought that fertility below a level could not be achieved without changes in the material conditions of the people.
Religion has a significant relevance in the demographic study of socio-economic groups.
Fertility in Pakistan has shown a stubborn resistance to change. Because of sharp declines in mortality following World War II, the population of Pakistan was growing at the rate of 2.7 percent per annum around 1960.
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