fertility transition across the major states of India. Third, fertility convergence is estimated both in terms of absolute and … of convergence for the recent period of 2001-09. Overall, India's fertility transition is characterised by a …Are the fertility rates across the Indian states and socioeconomic spectrum converging? This paper seeks to answer to …

The Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85) aims to reduce the proportion of population below the 'poverty line' to 30% by its …

Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were …