Tim Dyson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 239183 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tim Dyson |
| NOMBRES | Tim |
| APELLIDO | Dyson |
| FIRMA | DYSON T |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 803 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
India's Historical Demography
Company and Crown
There were positive and negative developments during this time. However, demographic data became much fuller. Despite famines and epidemics, there was appreciable population growth. By 1871 India’s population was about 255 million. The chapter considers the evidence for the growth and discusses the population’s demographic characteristics, the occurrence of famines, epidemics, migration, and changes in the urban sector. There are few reasons to t…
From Ancient Times to the Year 1000
This chapter addresses the period from the end of the Mauryan Empire to c .1000 CE. There is very little evidence for the period. Nevertheless, people probably continued to migrate into river valleys and exploit new land. As a result, populations in different parts of the subcontinent increased—albeit usually very slowly and irregularly. In the north, Indo-Aryan influences continued to grow. Further south, kingdoms like those of the Pallavas and …
Before and After 1947
This chapter considers population trends in the decades either side of Independence. It does so in three broad phases. The first phase is the 1920s and 1930s—when there was unprecedented population growth, and public discussion about birth control increased. The second phase is the turbulent 1940s; here particular attention is given to the demographic effects of the Bengal famine in 1943–44 and Partition in 1947. The final phase is the 1950s and …
Conclusion
This chapter reviews the various assessments of the size of India’s population that have emerged in the book. It also comments briefly on some general issues. These issues include: the matter of past fluctuations in the size of the population and how they may—or may not—have been related to changes in the resource base; the degree to which trends in India’s population may—or may not—have corresponded to the population trends that were common to b…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Democracy and the demographic transition
This paper addresses the role of demographic factors in contributing to the emergence of democracy.It maintains that, other things equal, progress in the demographic transition promotes democratization.The argument is developed with reference to the effects of interrelated changes in mortality, natural increase (i.e.population growth), fertility, and population age structure.Suggestions are also made with respect to how demographic and democratic…
On Demographic and Democratic Transitions
Causes and Consequences of Skewed Sex Ratios
Slightly more males are born in the world than females. But because male mortality is usually greater, in old age groups there are many more women than men. The situation is particularly stark in the former Soviet Union, where male adult death rates are exceptionally high. In much of Asia, strong son preference has long informed unusually high female child mortality. And the impact of this on population sex ratios has been reinforced by the recen…
The Role of the Demographic Transition in the Process of Urbanization
The next observation is, that ... there are far more burials than christenings. This is plain.... From this single observation it will follow that London should have decreased in its people, the contrary whereof we see by its daily increase.... It is therefore certain that London is supplied with people from out of the country, whereby not only to repair the over-plus difference of burials above-mentioned, but likewise to increase its inhabitants…
Population and Development
About the author Tim Dyson is professor of population studies at the London School of Economics. He was educated in England and Canada, and has held visiting positions at the Australian National University in Canberra, the International Institute of Population Sciences in Mumbai, and the American University of Beirut. His research interests include world food and agricultural prospects, the causes and consequences of famines, the demographic basi…
On Causation in Demography
Demographic Transition in Asia and its Consequences
On Development, Demography and Climate Change
Twenty-First-Century India
1. Overview DEMOGRAPHY 2. India's Population: The Past 3. Mortality Trends and the Health Transition 4. The Continuing Fertility Transition 5. India's Population: The Future 6. Migration and Urbanization: Retrospect and Prospects SOCIAL SECTORS AND THE ECONOMY 7. Education and Literacy 8. Employment 9. The Condition of the People 10. The Economy, the Past, and the Future POPULATION, FOOD, AND ENVIRONMENT 11. Prospects for Food Demand and Supply 1…
Twenty-First Century India
Twenty-First Century India is the first study of India’s development giving a fully integrated account of population and development. It is built on new projections of the population for fifty years from the Census of 2001. India’s population then had already passed 1 billion. Twenty-five years later it will exceed 1.4 billion, and will almost certainly pass 1.5 billion by mid-century. The projections incorporate for the first time both inter-sta…
HIV/Aids and Urbanization
It is well known that levels of HIV prevalence tend to be appreciably higher inurban areas. This article considers the reasons for this and shows that within world regions that are relatively homogeneous with respect to their experience of HIV/AIDS, variation in the level of urbanization corresponds to about one-third of variation in estimated HIV prevalence. Furthermore, for populations in the world's worst-affected area-eastern and southern Afr…
Famine demography
Demography, Food Production and Famine Risks in the Twenty-first Century
The main purpose of this article is to address the question of whether the world can feed itself during the twenty-first century.The article starts with a brief review of the chief demographic effects of famines -with special reference to their possible practical significance.It then considers so-called 'neo-Malthusian' dimensions of famines -in particular, the widespread notion that population growth may outpace growth in the global food supply.…
A partial theory of world development
This paper argues that the demographic transition has been central to the creation of the modern world, and that its role in this respect has generally been underestimated. The paper proposes a partial, causal theory – operating at the ‘super‐macro’ level, and over the very long run – for several major aspects of world ‘development’. Key elements of the argument are that sustained mortality decline causes both urbanisation and fertility decline. …
The Preliminary Demography of the 2001 Census of India
This note presents and comments on the provisional results of the 2001 census of India. For the first time since Independence in 1947 there is clear evidence that the country's intercensal rate of population growth has fallen significantly-from an average annual rate of 2.14 percent between 1981 and 1991 to a rate of 1.93 percent between 1991 and 2001. At the state level there has been little change in the rates of population growth in Uttar Prad…
Smallpox and the impact of vaccination among the Parsees of Bombay
Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century India
This study uses the large, but neglected, body of Indian historical demographic and health data to show that smallpox was a major killer in past times. At the start of the nineteenth century roughly 80 percent of India's population had no effective protection against the disease, and in these circumstances virtually everyone suffered from it in childhood. The main exception was Bengal, where the indigenous practice of inoculation greatly limited …
The Continuing Demographic Transition
From the perspective of human society, one of the most significant occurrences of the twentieth century has been the demographic transition -- the movement from tragic and wastefully high death and birth rates to low rates in many countries. Many other countries, however, are still at only the early or intermediate stages of this process. In these countries, means need to be found to accelerate the transition. This book brings new evidence to bea…
Better Focus on the Practical Challenges Posed by Population Growth (Or, To Create a Forest You Must Plant Trees)
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On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behavior in India
The main states of India are broadly grouped into 2 demographic regimes. In contrast to states in the north southern states are characterized by lower marital fertility later age at marriage lower infant and child mortality and comparatively low ratios of female to male infant and child mortality. The division between the 2 regimes broadly coincides with the division areas of northern kinship/low female autonomy and southern kinship/high female a…
The Onset of Fertility Transition
For many years it has been known that in virtually no human population has the level of fertility ever approached the potential biological maximum. Scholars have long been aware that such factors as constraints on marriage, prolonged breastfeeding, periods of separation or abstinence, abortion, and disease have exerted a restraining influence on fertility. Thus while systematic investigation of the relationships determining fertility levels had t…
The Role of the Demographic Transition in the Process of Urbanization
The next observation is, that ... there are far more burials than christenings. This is plain.... From this single observation it will follow that London should have decreased in its people, the contrary whereof we see by its daily increase.... It is therefore certain that London is supplied with people from out of the country, whereby not only to repair the over-plus difference of burials above-mentioned, but likewise to increase its inhabitants…
Causes and Consequences of Skewed Sex Ratios
Slightly more males are born in the world than females. But because male mortality is usually greater, in old age groups there are many more women than men. The situation is particularly stark in the former Soviet Union, where male adult death rates are exceptionally high. In much of Asia, strong son preference has long informed unusually high female child mortality. And the impact of this on population sex ratios has been reinforced by the recen…
On Causation in Demography
A partial theory of world development
This paper argues that the demographic transition has been central to the creation of the modern world, and that its role in this respect has generally been underestimated. The paper proposes a partial, causal theory – operating at the ‘super‐macro’ level, and over the very long run – for several major aspects of world ‘development’. Key elements of the argument are that sustained mortality decline causes both urbanisation and fertility decline. …
On the Demography of South Asian Famines Part I
Democracy and the demographic transition
This paper addresses the role of demographic factors in contributing to the emergence of democracy.It maintains that, other things equal, progress in the demographic transition promotes democratization.The argument is developed with reference to the effects of interrelated changes in mortality, natural increase (i.e.population growth), fertility, and population age structure.Suggestions are also made with respect to how demographic and democratic…
On Demographic and Democratic Transitions
On the Demography of South Asian Famines Part II
Part I of this paper (published in the last issue) was focused on demographic responses to three major famines which occurred in late nineteenth-century India. Part II deals with the 1943–44 famine in Bengal and the 1974–75 famine in Bangladesh. The paper presents important and hitherto unanalysed demographic data on the Bengal famine. Drawing on the analysis of Part I, it argues that because of flaws in the data which have been used, there is a …
HIV/Aids and Urbanization
It is well known that levels of HIV prevalence tend to be appreciably higher inurban areas. This article considers the reasons for this and shows that within world regions that are relatively homogeneous with respect to their experience of HIV/AIDS, variation in the level of urbanization corresponds to about one-third of variation in estimated HIV prevalence. Furthermore, for populations in the world's worst-affected area-eastern and southern Afr…
The Preliminary Demography of the 2001 Census of India
This note presents and comments on the provisional results of the 2001 census of India. For the first time since Independence in 1947 there is clear evidence that the country's intercensal rate of population growth has fallen significantly-from an average annual rate of 2.14 percent between 1981 and 1991 to a rate of 1.93 percent between 1991 and 2001. At the state level there has been little change in the rates of population growth in Uttar Prad…
Vital Rates in India, 1961-1981
On Development, Demography and Climate Change
Excess mortality during the Bengal famine
Twenty-First-Century India
1. Overview DEMOGRAPHY 2. India's Population: The Past 3. Mortality Trends and the Health Transition 4. The Continuing Fertility Transition 5. India's Population: The Future 6. Migration and Urbanization: Retrospect and Prospects SOCIAL SECTORS AND THE ECONOMY 7. Education and Literacy 8. Employment 9. The Condition of the People 10. The Economy, the Past, and the Future POPULATION, FOOD, AND ENVIRONMENT 11. Prospects for Food Demand and Supply 1…
Demographic Transition in Asia and its Consequences
Demography, Food Production and Famine Risks in the Twenty-first Century
The main purpose of this article is to address the question of whether the world can feed itself during the twenty-first century.The article starts with a brief review of the chief demographic effects of famines -with special reference to their possible practical significance.It then considers so-called 'neo-Malthusian' dimensions of famines -in particular, the widespread notion that population growth may outpace growth in the global food supply.…
Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century India
This study uses the large, but neglected, body of Indian historical demographic and health data to show that smallpox was a major killer in past times. At the start of the nineteenth century roughly 80 percent of India's population had no effective protection against the disease, and in these circumstances virtually everyone suffered from it in childhood. The main exception was Bengal, where the indigenous practice of inoculation greatly limited …
Demographic Responses To Famines In South Asia
Despite frequent pronouncements that there is a dearth of data with which to assess the demographic consequences of famines, there is in fact a huge quantity of very detailed demographic material for India which was collected on famines during British colonial rule. The single most important source is vital registration (i.e. registration of births and deaths). Those few scholars who have taken the time to study this information include Roland La…
Smallpox and the impact of vaccination among the Parsees of Bombay
The population history of Berar since 1881 and its potential wider significance
population dynamics of the former British India province of Berar which now forms part of Maharashtra from 1881 to 1981 are analyzed. The paper is divided into four main parts. In the first section we introduce census and registration-based statistics relevant to a consideration of the provinces demographic history since 1881. second section then uses these statistics as a framework within which to introduce additional data sets and to consider k…
Urbanization in India
Urban growth in India from 1971 to 1981 has been greater than generally anticipated. However the combined aggregate growth rate of Indias 20 largest cities lies well below the national urban average. The acceleration of the nations urbanization is being fueled by the growth of cities in the intermediate size range of 100 thousand to 400 thousand population. There is considerable evidence that the momentum of growth has shifted to larger urban cen…
Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud
Crook Nigel, Dyson Tim. Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud : contraste entre les races. In: Population, 35e année, n°3, 1980. pp. 691-697
New Population Projections for India
New Population Projections for India
Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud
Crook Nigel, Dyson Tim. Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud : contraste entre les races. In: Population, 35e année, n°3, 1980. pp. 691-697
Dynamics of Population and Family Welfare in India
Urbanization in India
Urban growth in India from 1971 to 1981 has been greater than generally anticipated. However the combined aggregate growth rate of Indias 20 largest cities lies well below the national urban average. The acceleration of the nations urbanization is being fueled by the growth of cities in the intermediate size range of 100 thousand to 400 thousand population. There is considerable evidence that the momentum of growth has shifted to larger urban cen…
On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behavior in India
The main states of India are broadly grouped into 2 demographic regimes. In contrast to states in the north southern states are characterized by lower marital fertility later age at marriage lower infant and child mortality and comparatively low ratios of female to male infant and child mortality. The division between the 2 regimes broadly coincides with the division areas of northern kinship/low female autonomy and southern kinship/high female a…
Vital Rates in India, 1961-1981
India's Demography
India's Demography
These are the proceedings of a conference on the demography of India held at Worcester College Oxford England on December 14-16 1982. The publication contains three introductory papers summarizing the demographic situation as a whole mortality trends and estimates of fertility decline during the 1970s. The next three papers are derived primarily from large-scale demographic sample surveys being carried out or recently completed in Indias major st…
The Onset of Fertility Transition
For many years it has been known that in virtually no human population has the level of fertility ever approached the potential biological maximum. Scholars have long been aware that such factors as constraints on marriage, prolonged breastfeeding, periods of separation or abstinence, abortion, and disease have exerted a restraining influence on fertility. Thus while systematic investigation of the relationships determining fertility levels had t…
Census of India 1981. Fertility and Child Mortality Estimates of Madhya Pradesh, Occasional Paper No. 7
The population history of Berar since 1881 and its potential wider significance
population dynamics of the former British India province of Berar which now forms part of Maharashtra from 1881 to 1981 are analyzed. The paper is divided into four main parts. In the first section we introduce census and registration-based statistics relevant to a consideration of the provinces demographic history since 1881. second section then uses these statistics as a framework within which to introduce additional data sets and to consider k…
India's Historical Demography
India's Historical Demography
Excess mortality during the Bengal famine
On the Demography of South Asian Famines Part I
Hunger and Public Action
On the Demography of South Asian Famines Part II
Part I of this paper (published in the last issue) was focused on demographic responses to three major famines which occurred in late nineteenth-century India. Part II deals with the 1943–44 famine in Bengal and the 1974–75 famine in Bangladesh. The paper presents important and hitherto unanalysed demographic data on the Bengal famine. Drawing on the analysis of Part I, it argues that because of flaws in the data which have been used, there is a …
Demographic Responses To Famines In South Asia
Despite frequent pronouncements that there is a dearth of data with which to assess the demographic consequences of famines, there is in fact a huge quantity of very detailed demographic material for India which was collected on famines during British colonial rule. The single most important source is vital registration (i.e. registration of births and deaths). Those few scholars who have taken the time to study this information include Roland La…
Sexual Bheaviour and Networking
Sexual Behaviour and Networking
Population Growth and Food Production
Per capita cereal production has declined in North America Oceania and Latin America in the past 10 years. In sub-Saharan Africa drought and rapid population growth accounted for the slight decline in cereal production per capita. Increases have been experienced recently in North Africa and West Asia. Even Latin America showed increases if Argentina is excluded. Access to food supply may account for the UN Food and Agriculture Organizations estim…
Full House
Population and Food
1. Pessimists and Optimists 2. Population and Food Today 3. Population and Food - Recent Trends 4. Exploring the Future: Demand and Supply 5. Exploring the Future: Potentials and Constraints 6. Exploring the Future: Regional Vignettes 7. Conclusions, Forecasts, Caveats, Tempered Hope
Better Focus on the Practical Challenges Posed by Population Growth (Or, To Create a Forest You Must Plant Trees)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Continuing Demographic Transition
From the perspective of human society, one of the most significant occurrences of the twentieth century has been the demographic transition -- the movement from tragic and wastefully high death and birth rates to low rates in many countries. Many other countries, however, are still at only the early or intermediate stages of this process. In these countries, means need to be found to accelerate the transition. This book brings new evidence to bea…
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