Bøger af Pravat Kumar Kuri

Child malnutrition and child mortality plagues an excessively large number of children in India. The prevalence of high malnourished child puts the country slightly off target to achieve the child malnutrition related millennium development goals. Using the data generated by National Family Health Survey, Government of India, this study examines the trends and determinants of undernutritional status and child mortality in India. Analyzing the determinants of child nutritional status and child mortality in India, this study makes some alternative policy suggestions for reducing the rate of child mortality and undernutritional status of children in India. The Book is envisaged to cater the needs of the Students of Economics, Demography, Education, Health & Hygiene and sociology. It is expected that the findings of the study would be useful to academicians in general, planners and policy makers.

Examining the trends and patterns of urbanization and migration in India during 1961-2001, this book attempts to analyse the inter-relationship between them over the period of economic development in India. The book outlined a conceptual framework of migration process of India and identifies its determinants. It is visualized that the findings of the study would be useful in particular to the students of economics, urban studies, demography and sociology. It is expected that the study would also be useful to the planners, policy makers and academicians in general.

This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development - economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development - over a period of forty years since the 1970s.