Events

NCAER and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organised an in-person panel discussion on the IMF’s latest Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and Pacific on 31 October 2022, at the Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Dr Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department, made a presentation on the latest assessment for the...   Read More

NCAER organised an in-person seminar on Money vs Kudos: The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in Tamil Nadu with Dr Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank. Following is an Abstract of the paper based on which Dr Rao made his presentation. Despite growing awareness of various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative...   Read More

NCAER organised an in-person seminar on Global Financial System: Fractures, Fissures, and Fragmentation by Mr Udaibir Saran Das, a senior international financial policies expert. In his presentation, Mr Udaibir Das noted that economic and financial uncertainty has spiked once again and pointed to six fissures in the global financial system (GFS): (i) contagion effects that may arise from...   Read More

NCAER organised an in-person seminar on September 12, 2022, covering the World Bank’s FINDEX Report, 2021, released in June 2022 and in the backdrop of the Report also discussed the theme, “Challenges and Opportunities for Leveraging digital Technology for Financial Inclusion in India”. The seminar was attended by a number of eminent officials from the...   Read More

An in-person full-day seminar was organised at NCAER on 7 September 2022 by NCAER and the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) on the Foundation Day of IEPFA. The aim of the seminar, held under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, was to promote financial literacy, investor awareness, and...   Read More

NCAER organised a seminar on Women’s Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market by Dr Kanika Mahajan, Ashoka University, on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. In her presentation, Dr Mahajan suggested that while it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labour within marriage adversely affects women's allocation of time to market work, there is less evidence on how...   Read More

Barry Eichengreen, Distinguished Visiting Professor at NCAER, and Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered a public lecture titled, “The Stealth Erosion of Dollar Dominance”, at the Amex Hall, Delhi School of Economics, University of  Delhi, on Friday, August 5, 2022. The lecture was organised by NCAER in collaboration with the...   Read More

Professor Michael R. Kremer directs the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, where he is a University Professor. He is the joint winner of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Economics Nobel Prize) 2019, for “the experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Professor Kremer’s work focuses on innovation, including...   Read More

NCAER hosted its annual flagship event, the India Policy Forum (IPF) from July 12-13, 2022. The event was held in person at the India International Centre and NCAER in New Delhi. Every summer, the NCAER IPF brings to New Delhi a unique combination of intense scholarship and policymaker engagement through this forum that aims to...   Read More

This webinar hosted Dr Surjit S. Bhalla, Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the IMF, and Dr Tirthatanmoy Das, Associate Professor in the Economics and Social Sciences Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Dr Amit Basole, Associate Professor of Economics and Head, Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University,...   Read More