Handbook of Population and Development in India (Oxford Handbook of) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019808823X ISBN 13: 9780198088233

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Indian demographic scenario is characterized by large regional variations in population trends, uneven human development, adverse sex ratios, growing urbanization, and internal rural-to-urban migration. This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of the population-development linkages through an engagement with human development, human rights, and gender justice perspectives.

The linkages between population size, birth rates, economic well-being, environmental sustainability, and economic growth are complex. The volume uses the latest Census and National Family Health Survey data, this volume analyses a wide range of topical issues-food security, fertility, opportunities for the youth and the girl child, media and public health, and women's empowerment. Identifying past trends and future challenges, the volume calls for a more humane approach to population stabilization and endorses the popular tenet-'take care of people and the population will take care of itself'.

About this title

About the Author:

A. K. Shiva Kumar is a development economist and Adviser to UNICEF India; Pradeep Panda is Deputy Director of Research, Micro Insurance Academy, New Delhi; Rajani R. Ved is Adviser, National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 019808823X
• ISBN 13: 9780198088233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Kumar A.K. Shiva, Panda Pradeep, Ved Rajani R.