While high fertility persists in the poorest countries and fertility declines with per capita income in developing … countries, fertility and per capita income are now positively associated across most developed countries. This paper presents a … model where a Ushaped relationship between overall fertility and per capita income reflects within country differences in …

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …

demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …

This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … surveys in 1993–94 and 2004–05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women …