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This paper compares the incidence of infant and child mortality and sex preference in India and some selected Indian states such as West Bengal Punjab Gujarat Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the periods 1992-93 and 1998-99. It is based on the data collected from 90000 ever-married women thro...
has been arrested by Odisha Vigilance and is being forwarded to the Hon’ble Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Balasore for possession of disproportionate assets (DA) to the tune of 145% of her known sources of income,
South: Andhra Pradesh; Karnataka; Kerala; and Tamil Nadu. Jammu was not included in the 1991 Indian Census and is therefore not included in our regressions. Son preference is mean [ideal sons/ideal daughters], where each child in a woman’s ideal bundle toward whose sex she is indifferent ...
Information regarding children below 5 years of age and women aged 15–49 has been extracted from the AHS (2010–2011), and household amenities information has been obtained from the Census (2011). Household amenities were assessed from the census at the district level in the high focus ...
Girl, woman, lover, mother: towards a new understanding of child prostitution among young Devadasis in rural Karnataka, India. The emotive issue of child prostitution is at the heart of international debates over 'trafficking' in women and girls, the "new slave trade", and how thes... TR...
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(2004). Infant Feeding Practices and Chronic Child Malnutrition in the Indian States of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. Economics and Human Biology, 2, 138–158. Article Google Scholar Coffey, D., & Spears, D. (2017). Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of...
Low caste adolescent girls living in rural northern Karnataka are at increased risk of school drop-out, child marriage, and entry into sex-work, which enhances their vulnerability to HIV, early pregnancy and adverse maternal and child health outcomes. Th
Karnataka, as in any other state of India. But we do not monitor sex trade per se, and therefore we do not have any statistics, data or information on what part of that sex work involves children, minors or forces adults for sexual exploitation, and what part may be of voluntary sex ...