Events

Gaurav Datt of Monash University presented his work on “Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India”, co-authored with Martin Ravallion at Georgetown University and Rinku Murgai at the World Bank.  This new work delivers the most robust evidence to date that economic growth in India has not only come with a lower incidence of absolute poverty...   Read More

Regional Cooperation: Perspectives from China and India Second in NCAER’s Looking East Video Conversation Series with key policymakers in East Asia This dialogue brought together Chinese and Indian policymakers and analysts for a discussion on how the Asian landscape will evolve as regional linkages and partnerships in Asia take more concrete shape over this decade....   Read More

NCAER today launched its first research on India’s 3E Challenge- Education, Employability, and Employment under the New Skills at Work India (NSAWI) program. Housed in NCAER’s Labour Economics Research Observatory (LERO), NSAWI is an inaugural research initiative that will look at the skills gap currently affecting the Indian work environment. The two-year research program, supported by J.P...   Read More

NCAER formally launched the public-use India Human Development Survey-II (IHDS-II) data, India’s first national, multi-topic, longitudinal household panel survey, at the start of the Third IHDS Users’ Conference at the Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan. A training session was also held on March 16th in conjunction with the conference for students and scholars working with IHDS data....   Read More

The National Council of Applied Economic Research, NCAER, released a new NCAER State Investment Potential Index (N-SIPI) at a full-day launch workshop inaugurated by Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.  Covering all 29 States and the Delhi Union Territory, NCAER will release N-SIPI in March every year...   Read More

NCAER  presented its study on Factors Impacting Railway Freight Traffic in India to Mr Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways, Mr A K Mital, Chairman of the Railway Board, and Mr Mohd. Jamshed, Member Traffic, Railway Board at the Rail Bhavan today. Present were Dr Shekhar Shah, Director-General of NCAER, Dr Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Associate...   Read More

NCAER's Quarterly Review of the Economy Quarter 3, 2015–16 The NCAER QRE team presented its quarterly review & forecast of the major macroeconomic variables based on NCAER’s modelling work. It included NCAER's observations, reviews and projections for 2016-17 covering various sectors including agriculture; industry and services; public finance, money; credit and finance; external sector as...   Read More

Battling extremes of drought and, unseasonal rains, complicated now by a warm winter, the Indian farmer had a difficult year in 2015 and his prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016. This has resulted in farmer distress and may lead to a decline in food-grain output in 2016 for the second straight year, says NCAER’s...   Read More

NCAER organised a seminar by Dr Frederico Gil Sander to discuss the World Bank’s recently released India Development Update 2015: Fiscal Policy for Equitable Growth. Dr Sander, World Bank’s Senior Country Economist presented an overview on the report which projects that India's GDP will grow by 7.5 percent in FY2015-16 and by 7.8 and 7.9 percent in...   Read More

A book on managing Think Tanks by Raymond Struyk was released by NCAER and the Washington DC-based Results for Development Institute (R4D) whose research program on think tanks has yielded the book. This publication demonstrates that better management is possible, cost-effective, and can be highly rewarding.  It contains best practices, case studies, and strategies based on the experience...   Read More