Investment in family planning (FP) provides returns through a lifetime. Global evidence shows that FP is the second-best buy in terms of return on investment after liberalizing trade. In this study, we estimate the cumulative benefits of FP investments for India from 1991 to 2016 and project...

Globally, India is uniquely important due to the sheer size of its population and the unorthodox trajectory of its changing character. With a population of more than 1.3 billion, it contains nearly 18 percent of the global population and is expected to surpass China (population of 1.38 billion...