Events

In the week that will see a major change of guard at the Reserve Bank of India, and against the backdrop of a new monetary policy framework for India that is rapidly being put in place, NCAER organised a discussion with Dr Frederico Gil Sander (World Bank, New Delhi) based around the World Bank’s June 2016 India Development Update:...   Read More

The fifth meeting of the Advisory Panel of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS-II), chaired by Pronab Sen, former Chairman, National Statistical Commission, was held at the NCAER Conference Room on August 11, 2016. The IHDS is the first large panel survey conducted jointly by the NCAER and University of Maryland for the same households...   Read More

NCAER’S Quarterly Review of the Economy July 2016 NCAER predicts GDP will grow at 7.6 percent in 2016-17 NCAER Team presented the Quarterly Review of the Economy at a seminar held at its Conference Room. The review covered the performance of the Economy in the first quarter of 2016-17 and forecast for the year head....   Read More

At a seminar held at NCAER, Nirvikar Singh, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reviewed and analyzed the three initiatives of the Government of India, namely, Digital India, Start-up India and Make in India in terms of the needed sectoral economic reforms, including in education and skilling, labor markets, finance, infrastructure, urbanization,...   Read More

NCAER in association with Penguin Random House India, hosted Vijay Joshi for the launch of his book, 'India’s Long Road: the Search for Prosperity', at India Habitat Center on July 14, 2016 to a packed house. Vijay Joshi was in conversation with  Bimal Jalan, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and former President...   Read More

The India Policy Forum, IPF, in its 13th continuous year in 2016, is organized by NCAER in New Delhi in July every year. Its objective is to promote rigorous empirical research on Indian economic policy with commissioned papers, an annual two-day conference leading to a volume, the India Policy Forum Volume published by SAGE, and the annual...   Read More

NCAER’S Quarterly Review of the Economy May 2016 NCAER predicts GDP will grow at 7.7 percent in 2016-17 NCAER Team presented the Quarterly Review of the Economy at a seminar held at its Conference Room. The review covers the performance of the Economy in the 2015-16 and forecast for the year head. NCAER’s annual model...   Read More

NCAER and The World Bank co-hosted the India launch of the World Development Report 2016 on Digital Dividends, followed by a roundtable discussion on how to best speed up India’s digital transformation and reap the digital dividends of faster growth, greater opportunity and jobs, and better service delivery for India. Dr Shekhar Shah, Director-General, NCAER & Mr Onno Ruhl, India Country Director, The World...   Read More

Building on Asia’s Strengths during Turbulent Times A discussion around the IMF’s Spring 2016 Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook A conversation around the IMF’s Spring 2016 Asia and Pacific Regional Economic Outlook (REO), Building on Asia’s Strengths during Turbulent Times, led by Dr Thomas Richardson, Senior IMF Resident Representative in India, Nepal, and Bhutan was held at...   Read More

Prof Tarun Ramadorai (University of Oxford and NCAER) presented on Cross-country Trends in Household Finance at this NCAER Seminar. Dr Pallavi Choudhuri from NCAER shared her views as the discussant for the seminar. Household finance studies the ways in which households use financial instruments to attain their objectives. The field has grown rapidly in recent...   Read More