Events

The Review of Indian Economy presented by NCAER today, covered the performance of the economy during the first half of the current year (April- September 2015-16), and made projections for the later part of the year. Besides a stocktaking of the economy’s performance, the Review also included detailed discussions on key policy issues in form...   Read More

NCAER hosted their Chinese guests from the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40) in a Dialogue on India and China: Pathways to a Common Asian Future. The dialogue was attended by Dr Yu Yongding, Academic Adviser at CF40 and Senior Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Dr Huang Yiping, member of CF40’s Academic Committee and...   Read More

MAKE IN INDIA: HOW CAN INDIA HAVE A STRONG STEEL INDUSTRY? ‘Make in India’ cannot have its full impact without making steel in India. If the high, long-term potential of the steel industry in India is to be realized, the government must introduce a comprehensive program of reforms for the industry, according to a new...   Read More

A Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between Australian and India is an opportunity for both countries to grow and prosper in the coming decades with aligned economic and trade interests. The CECA negotiations, which are currently underway, aim at liberalising trade in goods and services besides creating a level-playing field to boost investments. Also, other...   Read More

Unclear Property Rights and Records put Investment in India's Manufacturing and Infrastructure Sectors, and its Financial Sector at Risk With over 93% of natural resource development in emerging economies at risk for land conflict, the global land investment experience has key lessons for India India’s growing energy, industry, and development needs require a substantial transformation...   Read More

NCAER’s annual model predicts that GDP growth rate (GDP market prices at 2011–12 prices) will grow at 7.5 per cent for 2015–16. NCAER Team presented the Quarterly Review of the Economy at a seminar held on August 18, 2015. The review covers the performance of the Economy in the first quarter of 2015-16 and forecast...   Read More

MGNREGA: A Catalyst for Rural Transformation, a report published by NCAER and University of Maryland was released at a function held at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi today.  The event organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India, and UNDP India was presided by Dr Bibek Debroy, Member, NITI Aayog,...   Read More

Economic Policies and Outcomes in India: A Retrospective The 2015 India Policy Forum Lecture by Professor Arvind Panagariya presented a  retrospective of how India’s economic policy framework has evolved over several decades and the outcomes this has produced. In a recent communication describing his plans for the Lecture, Panagariya has noted “…For the sake of...   Read More

The India Policy Forum, in its 12th continuous year in 2015, is organized by NCAER in New Delhi in July every year in a long-running partnership with the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Its objective is to promote rigorous empirical research on Indian economic policy with commissioned papers, an annual two-day conference leading to a...   Read More

Digitization of India will not only increase the efficiency of the government and public sector but also bring about huge democratization of the economy´’ believes Prof. Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz. In his ‘’brainstorming’’ session with the research fellows and the director general of NCAER Dr Shekhar Shah, Prof. Singh reviewed a presentation...   Read More