Demography

The reality of the challenges to our globe, driven by population growth and climate change, is daunting and well understood. But solutions are much less clear. Judith Jacobsen and John Firor help us to chart a future in which these trends reverse and the global outlook is more optimistic.... More

This book is an investigation of elitist initiatives to limit population growth in India. Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Gre... More

This volume, the first in a new series on population and sustainable development, provides new ways of thinking about population trends in the 21st century. While the 20th century was the century of population growth with the world's population increasing from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, this book shows tha... More

In 1994, the world's governments agreed, for the first time, far-reaching and enlightened population policies at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. The Conference itself, and the many preparatory activities that took place from 1991 to 1994, were characterize... More

Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Lala Lajpat Rai, Chandra Shekhar Azad.… There were numerous personalities who contributed to India’s struggle for independence, leading the masses towards the goal of freedom. More than fifty-eight years have now passed since India attained her independence, but it as esse... More

This book examines how advances in medical science, healthcare and increased longevity have given rise to an Ageing Population. The 21st century faces an ageing society but can it sustain the peaceful coexistence of all generations and extend economic security to all? This book explores the socio-e... More

Different regions of the world are undergoing a demographic transition as apparent in the shift from high to low rates of population growth. In general terms, demographic transition refers to the shift from a regime with frenziedly high mortality and fertility rates to another regime with controlled... More

Contributor - Dr. Ashraf U. Ahmed, Mr S.Barman, Prof. B.N.Bhattacharya, Prof . S.K. Bhattacharya, Dr. Josefina V.Cabigon, Mr. Partha De, Mr Rajesh Kumar Gupta,Dr A.H.M. Saidul Hasan, Prof. Ali Ahmed Howlader, Prof M.Nurul Islam,Prof G.Subramanyam, Prof.C.M. Suchindran,Dr. K.N.S. Yadava, Prof R.C. Ya... More

ForewordAcknowledgementsList oTablesIntroductionR.K. SinhaSocial Stability ; Economic Stability ; Political Stability DemographyP.N. Mari BhatProjection Assumptions; Projection Results for All-India; Demo-graphic Bonus: When and Where?; Urbanisation; Conclusion EducationR. V. V. Ayyar and Suman Sa... More

Rural-urban disparities, especially in developing countries, have for long been a major concern for policymakers. The disparities can be seen in all spheres of human life—economic and social. Income inequalities, lack of employment opportunities, lack of infrastructure and civic amenities, inadequ... More

"I have been waiting for years for someone to write the definitive institutional history of U.S. management education, and this is it. From the standpoint of most analytic definitions of 'professional, ' the term 'professional manager' is enigmatic, even oxymoronic. Rakesh Khurana's thorough, insigh... More

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that... More

"There is nothing like this book in the field today. Its remarkable contribution is to demonstrate that logical formalization can breathe new insights into a social science research program, even when it has attained a mature level of development. The book's process of logical reconstruction sheds l... More

This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behavior of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles, and extensive applications are presented. The authors focus on quantitative procedures for ... More

Examines the problem of the unprecedented rise in the world's population, showing how overpopulation will force future generations to make difficult choices among the competing values of economic development, environmental quality, and procreative freedom... More

In this intellectually and politically potent new book, Martin Shaw proposes a way through the confusion surrounding the idea of genocide. He considers the origins and development of the concept and its relationships to other forms of political violence. Offering a radical critique of the existing l... More