Events

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

Interest in India is substantially on the rise in Japan, with India’s ‘Make in India’ campaign and reciprocal visits by Prime Minister Modi and Abe. The number of Japanese companies entering India has gone up by 15 percent in the past year. Building on this momentum, India and Japan have set ambitious goals.  Under the...   Read More

Good governance and strong institutions are key enabling elements of sustainable growth.  Rule of law, predictability and accountability are fundamental bedrocks of good governance, which in turn are necessary conditions for good development, and will be the main focus of this lecture. At the same time, Asia’s growth will not be sustainable if it is...   Read More

Land Acquisition As the debate over India’s new Land Acquisition Bill rages in public and in Parliament, NCAER organised a very timely conversation on Land Acquisition, the first of NCAER’s new Looking East series of live, practitioner conversations by video with key East Asian policymakers, scholars, and analysts.  Dr Ir Wahyu Utomo, Special Expert to the Coordinating Minister...   Read More

Please join us for the fourth in the series of five lectures on the Asian Century by NCAER Distinguished Fellow, Mr Rajat M. Nag. Our commentator will be Mr Shyam Saran, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and Chairman of RIS.  Please join us for dinner after the lecture. Asia’s prosperity and security in an increasingly...   Read More

Please join us for the fourth in the series of five lectures on the Asian Century by NCAER Distinguished Fellow, Mr Rajat M. Nag. Our commentator will be Mr Shyam Saran, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and Chairman of RIS.  Please join us for dinner after the lecture. Asia’s prosperity and security in an increasingly...   Read More

Since the early nineties, India has cautiously opened up to private foreign capital. While financial openness has increased over time, it is still limited in many dimensions. Gross Capital Flows as a percentage to GDP, a measure of financial openness, peaked in 2007 at 67.4 per cent, from just 15 per cent in the 1990s....   Read More