Encyclopaedia
of Population and Development/M. Walter. New Delhi, Sarup, 2002, 2 volumes,
xii, 606 p., $83 (set). ISBN 81-7625-327-8.Encyclopaedia
of Population and Development/M. Walter. New Delhi, Sarup, 2002, 2 volumes,
xii, 606 p., $83 (set). ISBN 81-7625-327-8.
Contents: Vol. I. Impact of Population on Development: Preface. 1. Population and sustainable development. 2. Key to population stabilisation and HR development. 3. Population stabilisation in India: progress and pitfalls. 4. Population and manpower development. 5. Role of women in population stabilisation. 6. Education and population. 7. Population and food security. 8. Population growth—issue of delimitation. 9. Eating into the green reserves. 10. Ground water over exploitation. 11. Gender dimensions of population and development. 12. The impact of globalization and economic liberalization on population change and poverty in rural. 13. The effects of globalization on labour force and migration in Thailand. 14. Impact of globalization on rural and agricultural development. 15. Impact of population increase on adolescents. 16. Socio-economic change and adolescent issues in the Asian and Pacific region. 17. Women in development : demographic perspectives in Indonesia. 18. Women in development in Malaysia. 19. Women in development: current situation and emerging policy concerns in the Philippines. 20. Women in development in Singapore. 21. Women in development in Thailand. 22. The feminization of poverty.
Vol. II. Population Policy and Future Strategy: 1. Population policy 2000. 2. National population policy 2000. 3. Asia’s population and family planning programmes. 4. The demography of Asian ageing: past accomplishments and future challenges. 5. Mobility transitions within a global system: migration in the ESCAP region. 6. Asia’s demographic miracle: 50 years of unprecedented change. 7. Asia-Pacific population future: implications for policy. 8. Population and development in the Asian and Pacific region. 9. Population and development policies and strategies in rapidly changing macroeconomic environment. 10. Gender equality, equity, and the empowerment of women. 11. Challenges of reproductive health. 12. Quality of care and target-free approach for family planning programmes. 13. Adolescents’ in changing times. 14. Gender issues in reproductive health and promoting male responsibility. 15. Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment: development and utilization of UNFPA indicators. 16. Role of civil society: opportunity and constraints. 17. Resource mobilization: current situation and future requirements. 18. Analysis of country questionnaires.
"As the end of the second millennium draws near, the world view guiding the formulation of economic policies and the role of the state in social and economic development has undergone a radical shift within the relatively short time of about a decade and a half. This shift is likely to have important implications for the national and international approaches to thinking about population and development policies, and particularly the instruments available to implement these policies and programmes. It is necessary, therefore, to examine the need and scope for a review and reconsideration of the entire underlying framework.
"The social welfare policies and programmes globally are extensive in approach. The programme become more streamlined and were integrative in nature. Aimed to reach to the poorer sections, they have tried to integrate different types of services to cater a variety of needs.
"It is this phenomena in its varied dimensions which the editor of this encyclopaedia has tried to explore. He has provided an objective critique of the contradictions and consequences of the development and disparities. There are some definite linkages between development and disparities. Tackling as it does various concerns which are of growing importance in most developing countries, the collection in this encyclopaedia is of thought provoking critical reviews/papers/articles from India and abroad which would appeal to a wide range of readers.
"The encyclopaedia encompasses a wide range of content and approaches in its ambit and as such it is expected to be of much interest to a vast spectrum of scholars." (jacket)