Events

Yamini Aiyar, Nishant Chadha, Pinaki Chakraborty, Rajat Kathuria, Shekhar Shah The Union Budget 2021-22 was presented in Parliament on February 1, 2021 by the Minister of Finance, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman. All eyes have been on this COVID-19 Budget as the race between the virus and the vaccine quickens against the backdrop of the worst economic downturn in...   Read More

The Union Budget 2021-22 was presented in Parliament on February 1, 2021 by the Minister of Finance, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman. All eyes have been on this COVID-19 Budget as the race between the virus and the vaccine quickens against the backdrop of the worst economic downturn in independent India’s history and the worst the global economy has...   Read More

The Global Economic Outlook 2021: Averting a Great Divergence Gita Gopinath Chief Economist The International Monetary Fund Dr Gita Gopinath, the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, delivered NCAER’s 9th C. D. Deshmukh Lecture 2021 on The Global Economic Outlook 2021: Averting a Great Divergence. In these challenging pandemic times, Dr Gopinath, the IMF’s first woman Chief...   Read More

Sajjid Chinoy, Usha Thorat, Sonal Varma, and Sudipto Mundle in conversation with Shekhar Shah As the race between the virus and the vaccine quickens, all eyes are on the Union Budget 2021-22 that the Finance Minister will present on February 1.    How will the 2021-22 Budget vaccinate the Indian economy? NCAER’s Mid-Year Review 2020-21 released on December 21 as...   Read More

Part 2 of the NCAER-Nossal Longitudinal Household Study India has just begun its virus vs vaccine race with the roll-out of the Covishield and the Covaxin vaccines. Vaccinating India’s billion plus population as equitably and as quickly as possible will be India’s grand public health challenge. Meeting this challenge, and guiding policy and programs to...   Read More

Five investor education workshops with financial regulators Workshop II: Investor Education and Protection in the Insurance Sector  NCAER’s newly established Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Chair Unit’s hosted second of the series of five workshops on Investor Education and Protection with financial regulators. This session, focusing on insurance sector, was held virtually and was attend by...   Read More

Recovery and Vulnerability: Divergent Paths in the Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic As the nation hopefully begins its recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic through a massive vaccine rollout, assessing the speed of recovery in different arenas of life will require a better understanding of the overall impact of the pandemic and the level of willingness...   Read More

As the world changes calendars after a grim, tumultuous year, Indians have been greeted with the welcome news of two domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines nearing emergency approval. If ever humankind needed reminding that healthcare is central to all economic and social wellbeing, 2020 certainly achieved that. Countries that had robust healthcare systems, and these were...   Read More

The world is on the brink of winning the fastest vaccine race in history. As of this writing, two mRNA vaccines have been approved for emergency use in some countries and are being administered. An end to the Coronavirus pandemic appears to be in sight. But questions loom about large countries like India being able...   Read More

Five investor education workshops with financial regulators Workshop I: Investor Education and Protection in the Securities Markets NCAER’s newly established Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) Chair Unit’s organized the first of its series of five workshops on Investor Education and Protection with financial regulators. This session, focusing on the securities markets, was held virtually and...   Read More