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...

Equal access to educational opportunity is a basic human right essential to well being. Yet educational gap at attainment levels between male and female in India is staggering. Reduction in such gap is essential for more than one reason. Latest population census 2001 indicates considerable...

Indian agriculture has experienced significant growth and transformation since the emergence of modern seed-fertilizer-water based high yielding technology of Green Revolution in the mid sixties. However, the growth has been uneven regionally and the new technology had its impact in different...

India's fertility is declining and at present the country is experiencing significant demographic transition. The fertility pattern at the district level shows robust spatial clustering of low fertility values and its spatial propagation with time. While the role of the socio-economic...

There may be two main reasons causing Child Labour. The first one is poverty and the second one is lack of education. In case of third world counties, it may be apparent that poverty may be the only reasons for Child Labour. But Iftikar Ahamed (1999) has actually concluded that Child Labour is...