Population

What Cairo did not discuss

THE Cairo conference turned into yet another example of the governments of rich countries bullying the poor ones into accepting their self-centred perception of how the world's natural resources

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941015

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Tags:

Population, Family Planning, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries

India

The high moral ground

The abortion issue was given more importance than it deserved at the recent Cairo conference on population

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941015

pp:

0

Tags:

Population, UN

India

Population prompts progress

The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Author(s): Amit Mitra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Development, Population

Forests

All work and no foreplay

Plans are afoot to rejuvenate an overworked elephant population in Myanmar through artificial insemination

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forests, Population, Elephant, Myanmar

India

A desperate need for hard cash

To lessen the burden that the burgeoning world population puts on resources, family planning programmes will have to cover about 650 million people by AD 2000 and about 880 million by AD 2015,

Publication Date:

Thursday, September 29, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

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Population, Finance, Developing Countries, Statistics

India

To Summits, traversing slippery slopes

WHATEVER happened to the North-South wrangle on the consumption issue? Two grandiose international meets are around the corner: on population next fortnight, and on social development 6 months later.

Publication Date:

14/09/1994

Author(s): Anupam Goswami

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940915

pp:

0

Tags:

Population, Sustainable Development

Health

People trying to curb people

With the Vatican already on the offensive and various unresolved rifts, fireworks are definitely on the agenda of the upcoming population conference in Cairo

Publication Date:

14/09/1994

Author(s): Kavita Charanji

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Population, Family Planning

Air Pollution

A wolf too many

The wolf is quite literally at the Russian door. The wolf population in the country has risen from 22,500 in 1990 to 30,000 last winter. Animal-watchers see a close link between the rise in lupine

Publication Date:

30/08/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Population, Wolves, Russia

India

'We have to make population growth compatible with development'

DEVELOPING countries have accepted the inarguable importance of the link between population and economic and social development and natural resources, says NAFIS SADIK, secretary general of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994,

Publication Date:

29/06/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940630

pp:

0

Tags:

Development, Population, Developing Countries

India

Pregnant with meaning

FAR from the media hoopla, the developing world is quietly undergoing a reproductive revolution. According to a report released by the World Fertility Survey 1992, birth rates in the developing world have gone down by 1/3rd since the mid 60's. One remarka

Publication Date:

Wednesday, June 29, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

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Tags:

Population, Developing Countries, Statistics