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We
need to change the mindset in high fertility
states, says Amarjit Singh
Today is World Population
Day. Considerable public interest was generated
when the world population reached five billion
on July 11, 1987. The United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) decided to celebrate it
as an annual event as World Population Day
(WPD) to raise awareness about global population
issues.
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Effective
CSR management has the potential for cost
savings, better employee retention, improved
customer satisfaction, competitive advantage
and public approval
(Vision Foundation, New Delhi)
The department of public
enterprise has published its corporate social
responsibility (CSR) guideline for central
public sector enterprises (CPSEs). Essentially,
they demand that the CPSEs invest a part
of their profit on social and environment
issues, thereby focusing profitability on
the triple bottom line-social, environmental
and economic-with an integrated approch
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Angus Deaton , Jean Dreze
(Courtesy: Economic And Political Weekly)
This paper reviews recent
evidence on food intake and nutrition in
India. It attempts to make sense of various
puzzles, particularly the decline of average
calorie intake during the last 25 years.
This decline has occurred across the distribution
of real per capita expenditure, in spite
of increases in real income and no long-term
increase in the relative price of food.
One hypothesis is that calorie requirements
have declined due to lower levels of physical
activity or improvements in the health environment.
If correct, this does not imply that there
are no calorie deficits in the Indian population
– nothing could be further from the truth.
These deficits are reflected in some of
the worst anthropometric indicators in the
world, and the sluggish rate of improvement
of these indicators is of major concern.
Yet recent trends remain confused and there
is an urgent need for better nutrition monitoring.
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*Martha Campbell:
School of Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA
*John Cleland:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
WC1 3DP, UK
*Alex Ezeh:
African Population and Health Research Centre,
Nairobi, Kenya
*Ndola Prata:
School of Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA |
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