India is in a phase of demographic transition. As per the 1991 census, the population of the
elderly in India was 57 million as compared with 20 million in 1951. There has been a sharp …

This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset,
several times larger than the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over …

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths
of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of …

Background There are 44 million missing women in India. Gender bias; neglect of girls,
infanticides and feticides are responsible. The sex ratio at birth can be used to examine the …

La elección de sexo embrionario es una posibilidad biotecnológica que por ser realizada
sobre gametos no causa daño al cigoto. La elección del sexo de los hijos podría ser inocua …

'Sex underlies human existence, and if human life is sacred, how can sex not be?'As
squeamish as India is today about sex, this is also the land where queens once copulated …

Since 1991, India is emerging as a key destination for marketers from across the globe.
However, little work of relevance has been undertaken to understand the Indian Consumers …

Research has demonstrated that son preference has a serious impact on the survival and
well-being of female infants and children in some parts of South and East Asia, but little is …

A disturbing feature of demographic trends in India is the sharp decline in the proportion of
girls to boys. Most existing analyses of the Indian child sex ratio present a country wide …

The world is witnessing a scenario of rapidly changing demographic conditions,
predominantly in developing countries. The resulting slowdown in the growth of the number …