Moving within Border: Addressing the Potentials and Risks of Mass Migrations in Developing Countries This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration. Although prominent research has analyzed particular types of internal...
Yemi Adewoyin, University of Nigeria, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Published by Springer Through its direct and indirect impacts on labour productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and ...
Numbers as Political Allies analyses censuses of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as public goods, collective self-portraits and symbols of modernity and enriches the debates on the political economy of statistics in developing countries. Using field interviews, archival resources and secondary...
Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic , ed. David A Swanson and Richard R. Verdugo (Information Age Publishing, 2023) This exciting new volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical...
New Publication: 2020 Census Data Products: Demographic and Housing Characteristics File The U.S. Census Bureau’s Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) file is an important source of data for local governments - particularly those with small populations – as well as many other...
Race in the Machine: A Novel Account by Quincy Thomas Stewart (Stanford University Press 2023). In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain...
This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials authored by Joseph Chamie. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration, the...
by N.R. Prabhakara. India has five million working children between the ages of 5 and 14, which is more than two percent of all children in this group. Despite legal prohibitions, several socio-economic situations ranging from poverty, high fertility, and a non-responsive education system...
Fertility Transitions in the Developing World by John Bongaarts and Dennis Hodgson (Springer, 2022). This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behavior that occurred in Asia,...
Authors: John F. May, Jack A. Goldstone International Handbook of Population Policies Examines contemporary population policies, their evolution, and their prospects Addresses key population challenges globally Provides an up-to-date review of theoretical concepts and policy This Handbook...