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India's children : essays on social policy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kumar, Uthaya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Government policy--India.
- Children.
- India--Social policy.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Children constitute a sizeable proportion of India's population. Despite progress along many fronts, Indian children continue to face many deprivations. Statistical indicators reveal that differences in wellbeing among children in India are narrowing, yet almost 43 per cent of children below 5 years were undernourished in 2005-6, and, even today, over a million babies die before their first birthday. Through the entry point of new opportunities available to children in India and old challenges still faced by them, this book raises several key questions that are central to policy debates in India.
- Contents:
- part I. Measuring poverty and deprivations from children's perspective
- part II. Macro context and policy spaces
- part III. Gender, family and marriage
- part IV. Social exclusion and human development.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908531-5
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