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India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule. The authors address the key issues that emerge from the country's health situation, speculating on what it will take for low-income groups to begin claiming for better social services.

A secular decline in fertility has taken place across the globe within a short span of human history. The timing and pace of this decline correspond broadly with changes in socio-political institutions in different regions of the world, of Asia, and of India. We hypothesise that this shift in child-bearing behaviour is related to cognitive changes wrought by the replacement of deeply hierarchical socio-political institutions by the more egalitarian institutions of modern governance. (DSE/DÜI)

AbstractAbstract The Design of Management Information System (MIS) architecture has been the subject of the first phase of the methodology INFLOS reported in the previous article of the current issue of the journal. Sequel to this is the second phase which deals with the criticality analysis of the MIS architecture. In this, from a design point of view, it is aimed to identify critical decision units in terms of their direct and indirect informational impact on overall MIS. The methodology also facilitates the identification of varying possibility levels of informational interaction among the decision units. The results provide important inputs for systematic physical system design.

AbstractAbstract Management Information System (MIS) architecture reveals the nexus of information‐decision elements and has been described as an important planning tool of MIS development. In this paper, it is considered as a key design issue and a methodology (INFLOS) is presented for the same. Salient features of INFLOS have been discussed. The methodology proceeds in two phases. This paper is restricted to discuss only the first phase.