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The concept of demographic dividend means different things to different minds. This book provides a concrete account of the opportunities and challenges underlying the demographic dividend. A key message is that the demographic dividend must not be taken for granted. Just like you need to invest in shares to reap cash dividends, so does a nation need to invest in its youth to reap the demographic dividend in the form of higher and rising income per capita in ...
The emergence of community-based forestry management is very common for forest policies in the developing world. Thus, the search for traditional forest bureaucracy of state monopoly and top-down approaches over wetland management need to be critically analysed as they have become progressively ineffective to stop the depletion. The Ramsar Site--the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, bears the immense importance for its resources and services. ...
At the Census of India, in 1881, an attempt was made to obtain the materials for a complete list of all castes and tribes as returned by the people themselves and entered by the Census Enumerators in their schedules. Instructions were sent to each province and native state directing that the number of each caste recorded, and the composition of each caste by sex should be shown in the final report. In this manner it was designed to lay "a foundation for ...
The 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care at Alma Ata at Kazaktan set the goal of "Health for all by the year 2000". Since then more than nearly three decades have elapsed. But the task that Alma Ata Conference had identified has remained, alas, largely unaccomplished. This does not mean that some progress has not been made in primary health care in Bangladesh, but that the ending of rampant diseases, untimely deaths, and preventable ...
The book is the outcome of an exhaustive research work on power politics in the Asia-Pacific. The author has dealt with China's strategic rise, both in economic and military arena. The writer has comprehensively analyzed the scenario, also showing its ramification, of power politics among China and other Asia-Pacific powers including America. The book covers strategic aspects, which, it is expected, would be of great interest to the general readers as well as ...
Selected Papers on Security and Leadership includes several articles that were earlier presented or published in different national and international journals and seminars from time to time. This volume, containing nine important chapters related to security and leadership taken from author's learned papers, attempts to offer guide lines as well as practical advice for politicians, law makers, strategic and defense analysts, administrators, diplomats and leaders. ...
