Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 441-465

  Patel, Tulsi ^a   Purewal, Navtej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inequality; NGO; Population debate; Population inequality debate; Population politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889430498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996973.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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