Overview
- Is a ready reference for planners, researchers and students interested in development in India
- Provides scientific analyses that depict the clustering of development parameters
- Ranks 640 districts within and among states of India
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
This volume is meant for a wide readership interested in development in India, across population studies, sociology, economics, statistics, to regional development, and from academics, researchers, and planners to policy makers.
Reviews
“The book would be of great use for economists, demographers, and scholars in other disciplines of social sciences, planners, policy practitioners and research students.” (Sanatan Nayak, Migration and Development, August 4, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Udaya S. Mishra is a statistician/demographer and Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala India. He is engaged in research and teaching on population and development issues and has a number of national and international publications to his credit. In recent times, he has served in various capacities in guiding scientific research in social sciences. During his two and a half decades of teaching and research experience, he has contributed research to the areas of ageing, health, nutrition as well as population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health, and equity focus in evaluation of outcomes. His scholastic distinctions include: (i) Takemi Fellow, in the Department of Population and International Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University during 2003-05 (ii) Associate member of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, UK and (iii) Expert group member to review the draft handbook on `Designing of Household Sample Surveys’ at the United Nations Statistics Division, New York.
Rajesh K. Chauhan is Joint Director with Population Research Centre (PRC), Department of Economics, University of Lucknow, India. He has a PhD in demography from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and master's degrees in statistics and population studies. He has served at the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Planning Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India. His primary interest lies in the area of mortality and public health analysis, large-scale sample surveys, data management and analysis,money-metric welfare and poverty measures with special emphasis on measurement methodologies. He has extensive experience in working with the main Indian sample survey datasets e.g. National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey (DLHS) and National Sample Survey (NSS). He has good understanding of CS-Pro environment for the data entry. He has several publications in reputed international and national journals and contributions in edited books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Demographic and Development Divide in India
Book Subtitle: A District-Level Analyses
Editors: Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra, Rajesh K. Chauhan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5820-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5819-7Published: 27 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-5820-3Published: 16 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 558
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Regional Development, Development and Social Change