Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's sex ratio of 972 females per 1,000 males looks comfortable. But, if the sex ratio of the child population in the age group 06 years is taken into account, it shrinks to only 953 girl child per 1,000 boys. Here lies the nagging problem. The problem of sex …
Pune Population stabilisation is the mandate of the State Family Welfare Bureau, located in the city. However, the data released by the bureau on the occasion of the World Population Day (July 11) show a dip in the number of couples living below the poverty line (BPL) who decide to …
Vidya Krishnan Every year, India adds the population of Australia to its already staggering ranks of 116.1 crore people. Every 10 years, we add the population of Brazil
Archna Shukla India has possibly the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organizations in the world. A recent study commissioned by the government put the number of such entities, accounted for till 2009, at 3.3 million. That is one NGO for less than 400 Indians, and many times the number …
Calls for the eradication of malaria require the development of global and regional strategies based on a strong and consistent evidence base. Evidence from the previous global malaria eradication program and more recent transborder control campaigns have shown the importance of accounting for human movement in introducing infections to areas …
The accelerating rates of international trade, travel, and transport in the latter half of the twentieth century have led to the progressive mixing of biota from across the world and the number of species introduced to new regions continues to increase. The importance of biogeographic, climatic, economic, and demographic factors …
The mainstream development literature tries to understand the changes in land relations through the lens of land reforms alone. Kerala provides an appropriate setting to understand how far radical redistributive land reforms have succeeded in transforming inequity in landownership. Our findings based on a micro-level village study show that the …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a Rural Development Ministry proposal to launch the National Rural Livelihood Mission that aims to reduce poverty in a time-bound manner through provision of diversified employment opportunities and skill development. The proposal for the big-ticket development mission was earlier approved by the Expenditure Finance …
Kamal Bakshi Counting the “invisible” children of Mother India. While the current focus of political debate is on ‘caste and census,' there is another important aspect that deserves attention. This concerns disability. For decades after our independence, there was no effort to actually count how many of us have any …
World food prices will rise this decade, boosted by a growing population and changing diets, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in their annual outlook report.
We recently had a visit from a couple of government schoolteachers. They were in a foul mood. This was their third visit to our house, and on earlier two occasions the house was locked.
Conservation strategies for migratory animals are typically based on ad-hoc or simple ranking methods and focus on a single period of the annual cycle. We use a density-dependent population model to examine one-time land purchase strategies for a migratory population with a breeding and wintering grounds. Under equal rates of …
Landscape changes were measured in two watersheds of western Himalayas over a period of 17 years using satellite images. Whereas the total forest cover was found to have been altered, there was substantial shift among different elements which could be attributed to the increasing populations that live off these watersheds. …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the programme for agriculture development in the State should be based on growing population and food requirements of the people. Addressing a function to mark the
