Perceptive scholars have repeatedly drawn policy makers' attention to the pattern of masculine sex ratios in prosperous regions of India. However, direct evidence of the effect of prosperity on sex ratios has not been forthcoming. Such evidence is available nevertheless, through an unlikely...

Child sex ratios pattern in the Asian Population is highly masculine mainly due to birth masculinity and gender bias in child mortality. The vast and the growing literature of female deficit in world population points out the diffusion of child sex ratio pattern in many Asian as well as...

Mapping is a powerful tool for policy analysis. Mapping unveils the hidden trends of the attributes that are not readily apparent in traditional statistical analysis. However, the treatment of spatial effect and the visualization of spatial dependence are rather cursory and often limited to...

Fertility differentials among the Hindus and the Muslims in India are a matter of concern, which attracts scholars of different disciplines not only in India, but also outside as well. But surprisingly systematic analysis of fertility pattern among these religion sub groups has not been...

Since the beginning of the last century, sex ratio (male to female) in India is showing disturbing patterns with relatively fewer numbers of females compared to males. The magnitude of juvenile masculinity has increased since 1980s with no sign of reverse. The time trend of juvenile sex ratio...

The ratio of girls to boys (ie. sex ratios) in India reveals excess girl child deficit in comparison with developed and many other developing countries. Masculinisation in the juvenile sex ratio (i.e. f/m ratios) in Indian population further gets momentum during the last decade (Agnihotri 2001,...

Perceptive scholars have repeatedly drawn policy makers' attention to the recent marked deterioration in some major deficit indicators of the state government finance of India. During recent years, the increasing trend of fiscal deficits and its relation with revenue deficit have been viewed as...