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Fertility Differential in Kerala and West Bengal: Equity-Fertility Hypothesis as Explanation
This paper examslines John Ratcliffe's social justice hypothesis of demographic transitionz wt'hich iolods that the larger decline of fertility in Kerala compared to aniy other Iindian State reflects its uiniqze siuccess i-, reducing inequities in income and wealth as well as in promulgati...
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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan. 7, 1984), pp. 33-41
1984
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/003880.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper examslines John Ratcliffe's social justice hypothesis of demographic transitionz wt'hich iolods that the larger decline of fertility in Kerala compared to aniy other Iindian State reflects its uiniqze siuccess i-, reducing inequities in income and wealth as well as in promulgating an equitable distributionz of educational an(1c hecilth services. By oamparing Kerala with West Bengal, the onily other major State dominated by left oriented political parties, the p(aper show,s thcit Keralca's fertility level hais beeni lower th(an West Bengal's sinlce 1951-60, and in parti(al contradietion t9 |
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