Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Technology & Skills

Agriculture, Industry, Trade, Technology & Skills

To improve delivery of services through technology, enhancing trade, and reaping demographic dividend India needs to invest in better understanding of challenges and opportunities in trade, technology, and skilling. Additionally, quicker development of the agricultural and allied rural sectors continues to remain a priority for achieving the objectives of higher growth and poverty reduction through better income and employment opportunities.

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Op-Eds
24 February 2026

Rewiring Labour Market Architecture: India Must Fix Skill Matching at the Firm Level

Bornali Bhandari

A background note can be accessed here: OECD: Skills Use in Workplace Productivity gains depend as much on expanding skills as on aligning…

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24 February 2026

The structural gaps in infrastructure finance

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

Little emphasis on project preparation, resorting to asset monetisation sans guardrails, narrow financing base are pain points. The Union Budget has reaffirmed…

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Business Expectations Survey
20 February 2026

The NCAER Business Expectations Survey for India Third Quarter 2025–26

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), one of India’s premier economic policy research think tanks, carried out the 135th Round…

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Op-Eds
18 February 2026

AI and the Road to Vikshit Bharat

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

As India hosts the AI Summit this week, the event must be viewed not as a technology showcase, but as a development…

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Team

<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Bornali Bhandari</span>
Bornali Bhandari

Professor
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Saurabh Bandyopadhyay</span>
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

Senior Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Aradhna Aggarwal</span>
Aradhna Aggarwal

Senior Advisor

<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Charu Jain</span>
Charu Jain

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Laxmi Joshi</span>
Laxmi Joshi

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Ajaya Kumar Sahu</span>
Ajaya Kumar Sahu

Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Kemparaje Urs Subbaraje Urs</span>
Kemparaje Urs Subbaraje Urs

Associate Fellow
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Astha Sen</span>
Astha Sen

Consultant
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Nishika Pal</span>
Nishika Pal

Research Analyst
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">CH S S Bharadwaja</span>
CH S S Bharadwaja

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Nitesh Khandelwal</span>
Nitesh Khandelwal

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Ravindar Mahto</span>
Ravindar Mahto

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Kushagra Thakral</span>
Kushagra Thakral

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Jagbir</span>
Jagbir

Research Associate
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Poonam Dhawan</span>
Poonam Dhawan

Research Team Assistant
<span style="position: absolute; rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; height: 1px; width: 1px;">Shalini Aggarwal</span>
Shalini Aggarwal

Executive (Research Projects)

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