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doi:10.1038/nindia.2008.329; Published online 1 December 2008
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What good PNDT?
Improvements in socio-economic circumstances or introduction of policies that do not gel with societal norms and preferences are not likely to normalize the sex imbalance in India, according to a new study1.
Analysing a nationally representative sample of households with infants, researchers investigated the social patterning in sexes before and after the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act in 1996.
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