आबादी, श्राप या संसाधन?

दुनिया को ऐसे विचारों की जरूरत है जो तय कर पाएं कि जनसंख्…

Baby boom or doom?

POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg Oxford University Press

The shrinking family

Fertility transition

Falling count

Dwindling birth rates have become a cause for alarm in Europe

DIRTY SEX

Every 10 years, the census of India comes out with a damning statistic: the country's abysmal female-male ratio. As per the 2001 census, there …

No cause for panic

Old is cold

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

UNITED NATIONS

India, China share global burden of mental illnesses

The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders

Centuries of scarcity

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China

Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, finds study

The researchers found that the proportion of females reduced by 10 per cent when exposed to road salt

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

In Short

Are human beings edging out all other life forms?

Northeast India occupies 8 per cent of the country's geographic area, and supports 3.8 per cent of India's total population (2001 census figures).…

Chinese aggro

India lagging behind due to bad practices

Global warming, land use hit European mountain bird population

Mountain specialist birds registered a 10 per cent decline in numbers in 13 years, says a study

Revised global population forecast predicts slight increase

Instead of 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, population will touch 8.6 billion in 2030 and 9.8 billion in 2050 

Next time a report on people, please!

STATE OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION 1992 Publisher: UNFPA Price: Not stated

NORTH KOREA

Bloated cities

The real bad news

The most prosperous regions and communities in India have a bias against the female sex. Religion-based data shows us the biggest development …

A scholar among bureaucrats

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