Why scholars like Amartya Sen and others say that it is not necessary that famines occur only in the state of fall in foodgrain production?
It is because famines may also cause by a failure of entitlements or inability of people to buy or otherwise obtain food. A number of people in the world die of hunger and starvation due to poverty.
From which year decennial censuses are being conducted in a regular manner in India?
For what purposes the importance of demographic data is much greater?
What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
Why is distinction made between formal and social demography?
What problems have in India because of over-population?
Who was Thomas Robert Malthus and why is he famous?
What does Malthus write in an essay on the principle of population, 1798 CE?
What are the chief characteristics of Malthusian theory of population growth?
How were Malthus's predictions proved false by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Europe?
How was Malthus's theory met to rebuttal by liberal and Marxist scholars?
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