The Demographic and Development Divide in India: A District-Level Analyses
暫譯: 印度的人口與發展差距：區域層級分析

這本書是首部提供印度640個區域在人口、健康和發展方面的綜合資訊的著作。中央和地方政府、發展組織、國內外非政府組織以及研究人員需要區域層級的細分數據以滿足多種實際需求。然而，這類資訊並不容易獲得。編輯們與一群緊密合作的夥伴一起，從可靠的來源彙編了印度每個區域的數據，並以綜合指數的形式呈現結果。各章節對各州內的區域以及與印度所有區域的比較進行排名，以幫助讀者理解區域內部和區域之間的發展差異。他們提供了空間分析，描繪出發展的聚集情況。這是規劃者、研究人員和學生的即時參考資料，並提供科學分析，顯示區域層級發展參數的聚集情況。

本卷適合對印度發展感興趣的廣泛讀者，包括人口研究、社會學、經濟學、統計學、區域發展等領域的學者、研究人員、規劃者及政策制定者。

Sanjay K. Mohanty is a trained economist and demographer and Professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. Professor Mohanty has more than two decades of teaching and research experience and has guided several doctoral students in their maiden research work. He teaches courses on health economics and fertility measures at IIPS. His research interests include the economics of health and health care, economics of aging, multidimensional poverty and population dynamics. Prof. Mohanty has authored more than 80 research papers in international and national peer reviewed journals. Currently, he is associated with the "Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), which is a joint survey by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health of Harvard University, IIPS and The University of Southern California. Prof. Mohanty was Visiting Scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health during 2014-15 and C. R. Parekh Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics during January-April 2010. He was given the K.B. Pathak award in 2009 by the Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP) and the P.N. Mari Bhat Award by the Xavier Institute for Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar for his research.

Udaya S. Mishra is a statistician/demographer and Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala India. He is engaged in research and teaching on population and development issues and has a number of national and international publications to his credit. In recent times, he has served in various capacities in guiding scientific research in social sciences. During his two and a half decades of teaching and research experience, he has contributed research to the areas of ageing, health, nutrition as well as population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health, and equity focus in evaluation of outcomes. His scholastic distinctions include: (i) Takemi Fellow, in the Department of Population and International Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University during 2003-05 (ii) Associate member of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, UK and (iii) Expert group member to review the draft handbook on `Designing of Household Sample Surveys' at the United Nations Statistics Division, New York.

Rajesh K. Chauhan is Joint Director with Population Research Centre (PRC), Department of Economics, University of Lucknow, India. He has a PhD in demography from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and master's degrees in statistics and population studies. He has served at the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Planning Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India. His primary interest lies in the area of mortality and public health analysis, large-scale sample surveys, data management and analysis, money-metric welfare and poverty measures with special emphasis on measurement methodologies. He has extensive experience in working with the main Indian sample survey datasets e.g. National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey (DLHS) and National Sample Survey (NSS). He has good understanding of CS-Pro environment for the data entry. He has several publications in reputed international and national journals and contributions in edited books.

Sanjay K. Mohanty 是一位受過訓練的經濟學家和人口學家，現任印度孟買國際人口科學研究所 (IIPS) 的教授。Mohanty 教授擁有超過二十年的教學和研究經驗，並指導過多位博士生進行他們的首次研究工作。他在 IIPS 教授健康經濟學和生育指標的課程。他的研究興趣包括健康與醫療經濟學、老齡化經濟學、多維貧困和人口動態。Mohanty 教授在國際和國內的同行評審期刊上發表了超過 80 篇研究論文。目前，他參與了「印度縱向老齡化研究 (LASI)」，這是一項由哈佛大學 T.H. Chan 公共衛生學院、IIPS 和南加州大學共同進行的調查。Mohanty 教授在 2014-15 年期間擔任 T.H. Chan 公共衛生學院的訪問科學家，並於 2010 年 1 月至 4 月期間擔任倫敦政治經濟學院亞洲研究中心的 C. R. Parekh Fellow。他於 2009 年獲得印度人口研究協會 (IASP) 的 K.B. Pathak 獎，以及由布巴內斯瓦爾的 Xavier 管理學院 (XIMB) 頒發的 P.N. Mari Bhat 獎，以表彰他的研究成果。

Udaya S. Mishra 是一位統計學家/人口學家，現任印度喀拉拉邦特里凡得琅發展研究中心的教授。他從事人口與發展問題的研究和教學，並擁有多篇國內外出版物。近年來，他在社會科學的科學研究指導方面擔任過多個職位。在他二十多年教學和研究的經驗中，他對老齡化、健康、營養以及人口政策和計劃評估等領域做出了貢獻。他目前的研究興趣包括健康測量問題，以及在結果評估中的公平性焦點。他的學術成就包括：(i) 2003-05 年間擔任哈佛大學 T.H. Chan 公共衛生學院人口與國際健康系的 Takemi Fellow (ii) 英國南安普敦大學南安普敦統計科學研究所的副會員，以及 (iii) 聯合國統計司在紐約的「家庭抽樣調查設計」草案手冊審查專家小組成員。

Rajesh K. Chauhan 是印度勒克瑙大學經濟系人口研究中心 (PRC) 的聯合主任。他擁有澳大利亞國立大學 (The Australian National University) 的人口學博士學位，以及統計學和人口研究的碩士學位。他曾在印度北方邦政府規劃部的經濟與統計局任職。他的主要興趣在於死亡率和公共衛生分析、大規模抽樣調查、數據管理與分析、貨幣計量福利和貧困指標，特別強調測量方法論。他在處理主要的印度抽樣調查數據集方面擁有豐富的經驗，例如國家家庭健康調查 (NFHS)、區域家庭調查 (DLHS) 和國家抽樣調查 (NSS)。他對 CS-Pro 環境的數據輸入有良好的理解。他在知名的國際和國內期刊上發表了多篇論文，並在編輯書籍中做出了貢獻。