The Demographic and Development Divide in India

1. Demographic and Development Dichotomy in Districts of India Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra and Rajesh K. Chauhan.- 2. Population Trends, Distribution and Prospects in the Districts of India Rajesh K. Chauhan, Sanjay K. Mohanty and Udaya S. Mishra.- 3. Fertility Transition in the Districts of India, 1991-2011 Sanjay K. Mohanty, Sayantani Chatterjee, Emily Das, Suyash Mishra & Rajesh K. Chauhan.- 4. Development Disparity and Interstate Out-migration in the Districts of India Kalosona Paul.- 5 Educational Development and Disparities in India: District-Level Analyses Sayantani Chatterjee, Udaya S. Mishra.- 6. State of Health in the Districts of India Sanjay K. Mohanty, Nihar R. Mishra, Junaid Khan, Guru Vasistha and Udaya S. Mishra.- 7. Maternal and Child Health in Districts of India: Deprivation and Disparities Basant Kumar Panda, Udaya S. Mishra and Subhakant Swain.- 8. Primary Health Care Infrastructure and Maternal Healthcare Utilization in Rural India: A District Level Analysis Pijush Kanti Khan, Kajori Banerjee and Swarbhanu Nandi.- 9. Economic Development in the Districts of India Sanjay K. Mohanty, Anjali Dash, Radheyshyam Mishra and Bidyadhar Dehury.- 10 Spatial Pattern of Development in the Districts of India Sanjay K. Mohanty, Bidyadhar Dehury, Udaya S. Mishra and Anjali Dash.- 11. Summarizing Development Divide in Districts of India Udaya S. Mishra and Sanjay K. Mohanty.

Sanjay K. Mohanty is a trained economist and demographer and Professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. Professor Mohanty has more than two decades of teaching and research experience and has guided several doctoral students in their maiden research work. He teaches courses on health economics and fertility measures at IIPS. His research interests include the economics of health and health care, economics of aging, multidimensional poverty and population dynamics. Prof. Mohanty has authored more than 80 research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals. Currently, he is associated with the "Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), which is a joint survey by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health of Harvard University, IIPS and The University of Southern California. Prof. Mohanty was Visiting Scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health during 2014-15 and C. R. Parekh Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics during January-April 2010. He was given the K.B. Pathak award in 2009 by the Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP) and the P.N. Mari Bhat Award by the Xavier Institute for Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar for his research.


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

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