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HDI and Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh with low HDI.

553 Spatial and temporal trends in non-monetary wealth 1990-2010: Comparing
Asia and Latin America

Rodrigo Lovatón, Sula Sarkar

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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2. Population Census/Survey, Vital Registration, and Big Data

Abstract

Research on poverty mainly focuses on monetary measures such as the $1.90 amount set by the World Bank as the
adequate amount of income to survive. However, non-monetary indicators of wealth provide different insights into
inequality and development. In this study, we analyze poverty by looking at trends in household wealth in selected
Latin American and Asian countries from an asset-based perspective. Our goal is to compute a non-monetary index
suitable for comparative analysis with census microdata across the developing world. For this study, we analyze
non-monetary wealth at the national level, as well as the first and second administrative levels of geography.
Changes in household wealth are analyzed through time, taking advantage of spatially harmonized geographical
boundaries and census microdata samples available for the 1990, 2000, and 2010 rounds. We focus on a set of
nine indicators that are common across countries and census years. Overall results show progress for the countries
examined, but progress is uneven and differs within and between countries. Progress is also biased towards the
urban population.

799 Does India Need a Population Control Act? Situational Needs and
Contradictions

Md Juel Rana

International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

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11. Population and Economy: Demographic Dividend, Labor Market and Population Policies

Abstract

Recently introduced incentive-disincentive based population control bill in Indian parliament may refute the
fundamental human rights of reproduction, access to health care facilities and educational opportunities. The
expectation of incentives may lead to illegal sex-selective abortion, disowning of children, particularly female,
skewed sex-ratio and shortage of brides in marriage market. As current fertility is near replacement level, the
enactment of the bill will not have any immediate significant impact in declining the population; population
momentum will contribute in increase in the population for the upcoming three to four decades. There is a wide
regional variation in both observed and wanted fertility levels. Hence, it will not affect the majority, but only the
vulnerable and disadvantaged groups with lower level of education and poor economic condition, especially in the

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