Overview

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'.

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Author:   A.K. Shiva Kumar (, Development economist and Adviser to UNICEF India) ,  Pradeep Panda (, Deputy Director of Research, Micro Insurance Academy, New Delhi) ,  Rajani R. Ved (, Adviser, National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9780198088233

ISBN 10:   019808823
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables; Figures, and Boxes; List of Contributors; Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan; 1. Population and Human Development: Contemporary Concerns; 2. Reaping the Demographic Dividend; 3. Population, Environment and Climate Change; 4. Why Penalize People?; 5. Population and Food Security;; 6. Revisiting India's Population Policies; 7. National Population Policy 2000: What Can It Achieve Realistically?; 8. Reducing Maternal Mortality; 9. Fertility and Epidemiological Transitions: Cracks in India's Health Policy; 10. Fertility Decline in South Indian States; 11. Fertility Transition: Lessons from South India; 12. Understanding the Young Mind; 13. The Unwanted Girl Child; 14. An Explosion of Aspirations; 15. Reproductive Rights and Community Action; 16. Media and Public Health: Neither Fish nor Fowl; 17. Women in India's National Population Policy: Is Empowerment Enough?; 18. The Changing Context and Meaning of Women's Empowerment; Appendix 1: National Population Policy of India 2000; Appendix 2: Population Statistics; Glossary

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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.

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