National Council of Applied Economic Research
NCAER, organised a one day workshop on the role of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in building technological capabilities in developing countries with a special reference to India. Mr Rajiv Kumar, Member Secretary of the National CDM Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India was the Chief Guest and Dr Srikanta K. Panigrahi, Director... Read More
NCAER and the World Bank organized a two-week international high-level workshop, titled “Evaluating the Impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence” in New Delhi. NCAER and the World Bank collaborated to offer this unique training workshop for the first time in India. The workshop trained more than 100 participants from around 14 countries, many... Read More
In what has become a post- budget tradition, five leading Indian think tanks – NCAER, CPR, ICRIER, IDF, and NIPFP got together for the seventh consecutive year to present their assessment of the Union Budget delivered by the Finance Minister on 28 February, 2013. The presentations by the heads of the five institutions, the panel... Read More
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) organized a roundtable discussion on "Can Panchyats Make Services Work for Poor People in Rural India?" Dr Hari Nagarajan, Senior Fellow, NCAER presented findings from his forthcoming book "Decentralization and Empowerment for Rural Development: The Case of India", jointly authored with Dr Hans Biswanger-, and Dr SS... Read More
NCAER, organized the first annual C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on January 4, 2013, to honour one of India’s most eminent economists and one of its founding fathers. The lecture titled “Grassroots Welfare Schemes and Macroeconomic Choices: India’s Dilemmas” was delivered by Professor Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank... Read More
NCAER hosted a conference jointly with Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This two-day conference on Trade, Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy featured research papers prepared jointly by domestic and overseas scholars on areas of key policy interest. Economists, political scientists, and policy makers, reviewed the research and discussed its impact on India. .... Read More
This Workshop is one of the milestones of the Research Project on Facilitating Efficient Agricultural Markets in India: An Assessment of Competition and Regulatory Reform Requirements sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The eminent speakers included Prof Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University; Prof Allan Fels AO, Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government;... Read More
An earlier ACIAR “Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Domestic Market Reforms in Indian Agriculture”, had assessed the gains from international and domestic market reforms and found that trade policy reform must be complemented by ‘behind-the-border’ reforms if government objectives of improved productivity, higher rural employment and incomes and enhanced food security are to be met. The... Read More
