India's Population Challenge Is Inequality, Not Numbers

Assa Doron And Alex Broom On How India’s Antibiotics Crisis Is About Inequality

Assa Doron is a professor of Anthropology and South Asia at Australian National University. He is the author and co-author of several books, including ‘Life on the Ganga’, ‘The Great Indian Phone Book’, and ‘Waste of a Nation’. Alex Broom is academic director at Australian Research Council, professor of Sociology, and director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. He is the author o…

India's Population Challenge Is Inequality, Not Numbers

The population question is no longer about how many people there are, but how equally they can thrive. A new population agenda must prioritise health, education, gender equality, and regional disparities over demographic targets.