Events

NCAER in collaboration with the DBT Mission, organized a one day  Northeast Regional Workshop on Direct Benefit Transfer in Imphal, Manipur. Apart from NCAER and the DBT Mission, the other stakeholders that participated in the workshop included the Unique Identification Authority of India, National Payments Corporation of India, Ministry of Finance, Reserve Bank of India,...   Read More

NCAER presented the 2016-17 Mid Year Review (MYR) of Indian Economy at this seminar held in New Delhi.  The MYR presents the most comprehensive, independent assessment of the Indian economy as the Indian Government and its Ministry of Finance begin preparation of the FY 2017-18 Union Budget. Dr Shekhar Shah opened the seminar delivering his opening...   Read More

A low-growth, low-rate era, accompanied by increased political and policy uncertainty, is creating many challenges for policymakers, banks, and corporates in all parts of the world. In this seminar, Dr Ratna Sahay, Acting Director of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, presented the key findings of the IMF’s October 2016 Global Financial Stability Report that analyses these...   Read More

As per the Census 2011 data, India has 730 million people in the age group of 15-59 years, which gives India an opportunity to reap a significant demographic dividend. The government’s skills development policy (2015) notes that India is “presently facing a dual challenge of a severe paucity of highly-trained, quality labour, as well as...   Read More

NCAER organized a training workshop for the proposed Impact Assessment Study of Digital India Land Records Modernization program (DI-LRMP), as a follow up to an earlier preparatory meeting held on 30 August, 2016. The workshop was conducted by Deepak Sanan who is the technical advisor for this proposed study and was chaired by Prof. D...   Read More

In recent years, China has moved to “rebalancing” its economy away from a dependence on exports and investment to increasing domestic consumption. What will a rebalanced China look like? What will the rest of the world, and Asia with a rebalanced China in it, look like? This seminar organised by NCAER addressed these issues with Dr...   Read More

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