Events

NCAER released a new book covering critical issues pertaining to land prices and other challenges facing the land sector in urban India at an event held in its new Conference Centre. These issues assume added significance in view of the fact that India is one of the most land-scarce countries in the world. This scarcity...   Read More

NCAER hosted Sriram Raghavan, Vice President, IBM Research & Chief Technology Officer, IBM India/South Asia for a seminar on “Blockchain: An Emerging Platform for Trusted Transactions & Reduced Risk”. Going by popular media reports, blockchain is often a technology associated exclusively with the most recent cryptocurrency security breach or the volatility of the price of...   Read More

Challenges to India from Global Economic Upheavals by Mr Martin Wolf, CBE Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, London Mr Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London, and among the world’s most influential financial journalists, delivered NCAER’s 7th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at the NCAER India Centre, New Delhi,...   Read More

NCAER invited Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow, Bruegel, for a seminar on “The Challenges of International Collective Action in a Changed Environment” on January 8, 2019. Harsha Vardhana Singh, Chairman, IKDHVAJ Advisers, and former Deputy Director-General at WTO, was the discussant at the seminar, which was organised in partnership with GDN, the Global Development Network. In his presentation,...   Read More

NCAER presented its 2018-19 Mid-Year Review of Indian economy at an event held at the India International Centre, IIC. This event goes back to a long-standing partnership with IIC, which is attended by policymakers, industry leaders and researchers every year. The highlights of this report are as follows: NCAER forecasts Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of...   Read More

NCAER released a new Report, Skilling India: No Time to Lose, at an event inaugurated by Dr K P Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The Report puts forward the key findings of a research project on skills and jobs that NCAER started in 2016 with support from a research grant from J.P. Morgan. The...   Read More

NCAER is hosting a seminar on “Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling, a Tool for Economic Policy:  Achievements and New Challenges” with Professor Peter B. Dixon at the Centre for Policy Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne. Since its inception in 1960 with the work of Leif Johansen, CGE modelling has proved popular and versatile.  The Global Trade...   Read More

NCAER is hosting a seminar on “Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling, a Tool for Economic Policy: Achievements and New Challenges” with Professor Peter B. Dixon at the Centre for Policy Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne. Since its inception in 1960 with the work of Leif Johansen, CGE modelling has proved popular and versatile. The...   Read More

NCAER released its 2018 N-SIPI, the NCAER State Investment Potential Index at a launch workshop inaugurated by Shri Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). Covering 20 States and Delhi, this is the third edition of the annual N-SIPI that ranks India’s States’ on their competitiveness in business and their investment climate. Compared to 2017,...   Read More

Background: The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is India's oldest and largest independent, non-profit, economic research institute. It does grant-funded research, commissioned studies for governments and industry, and is one of the few think tanks globally that also collect primary data. NCAER has set up a National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) to serve...   Read More