Prasannavadan Bhagwanji Desai

P. B. Desai
Born
Prasannavadan Bhagwanji Desai

2 October 1924
Chikhli, Gujarat, India
Died11 November 1994 (1994-11-12) (aged 70)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationProfessor
TitleDirector, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
SpouseLina Desai

Professor P. B. Desai (1924–1994) was an Indian demographer and economist. He was director of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) in New Delhi from 1974 to 1976. He headed the Population Research Center at the institute for many years.[1][2]

Desai also served as honorary director of Centre for Parliamentarians on Population and Development in New Delhi. He was founder-member of Indian Society for the Study of Population (IASP), and its president from 1977 to 1979. He was editor of the journal Demography India from its inception in 1972 to 1980, and editor-in-chief from 1980 to 1987. Desai was Rapporteur General at the United Nations world population conference in Bucharest in 1974. Other associations included those with Planning Commission of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Institute of Urban Affairs, Delhi Planning Board, Family Planning Foundation of India and International Review Group on Social Science Research. He additionally served as a fellow at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.[3]

After retirement from IEG, Desai worked in Peace Research Center at Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahmedabad.[4][5][6]

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  2. ^ Bose, Ashish (2010). Headcount: Memoirs of a Demographer. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-670-08351-0.
  3. ^ Demography India. 1993.
  4. ^ Frankel, Stephen (1992). The Community Health Worker: Effective Programmes for Developing Countries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-262236-5.
  5. ^ International Population Conference, New Delhi 1989, 20-27 September. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. 1989. ISBN 978-2-87108-016-9.
  6. ^ Indian Council of Social Science Research (1986). ICSSR Newsletter.