The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) hosted the 17th 5-Institute Budget Seminar on Monday, February 6, 2023. As part of a tradition that has been continuing since 2007, the seminar brought together the heads of five Institutes, at the NCAER campus, that is, NCAER, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), the Indian Council for... Read More
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) organised the regional launch of the AIIB Flagship Report titled, “Moonshots for the Emerging World: Building State Capacity and Mobilising the Private Sector toward Net Zero”, on 8 December 2022, at the Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Dr... Read More
NCAER organised a hybrid seminar on Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: The Rise of Sonless Families and their Transformative Adaptations by Dr Keera Allendorf, Indiana University, on Monday, November 7, 2022. Dr Allendorf’s paper suggests that a neglected consequence of declining fertility is the likely rise of families with children of one sex—only sons or only... Read More
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and India International Centre (IIC) organised an insightful, expert commentary, and a lively debate on “The Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy, 2022-23” on November 5, 2022, at IIC. The NCAER Mid-Year Review (MYR) carries forward the tradition started by Dr Malcolm Adiseshiah at the IIC in... Read More
NCAER organised an in-person seminar on Money vs Kudos: The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in Tamil Nadu with Dr Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank. Following is an Abstract of the paper based on which Dr Rao made his presentation. Despite growing awareness of various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative... Read More