Southeast and South Asia are home to one-third of the world's population. Their great
economic and cultural diversity makes generalization about family patterns and trends …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the develo** world is critical …

The all-embracing discourse of population quality (suzhi) is put to work through rural primary
schools in ways that help state institutions implement policies such as accelerating …

This paper argues that Vidya (education), Veda (religion) and Varna (caste) are inter-linked
in India. It examines whether, and to what extent, the enrolment of children at school in India …

This paper explores why so many children remain outside the schooling system, despite the
current emphasis on education as a form of human capital and as a basic human right. The …

The high incidence of both child labour and out of school children in the South Asian region
has given rise to competing explanations. Broadly speaking, these can be categorised as …

A large body of research has examined the relationship between family size and child well-
being in develo** countries, but most of this literature has focused on the consequences …

Abstract The World Bank promotes women's education because it is an input into human
capital. In the capabilities approach, education is a force that enables women to have …

This paper answers the following two questions:(1) In the data, do we find a dilution effect of
population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? If yes,(2) How can we use …

In the demographic literature on develo** countries, studies of mortality perceptions are
conspicuous by their absence. Perhaps it has been assumed that when mortality declines …