RACHNA program. The programmatic framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in India, draws on standard targeted …

India - based on two household surveys, examines socio-economic and demographic aspects influencing fertility and population … growth such as income, education, woman worker labour force participation, land ownership, family status, caste, mortality …

, India - summarizes current mortality, fertility, migration, family size and household characteristics; examines bivariate … (children mortality, fertility, family planning, etc.); presents multivariate models of demographic behaviour and causes of …

among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … apply a new ‘flow’ measure of ‘missing women’ to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …