The key objectives of this study are to bring about conceptual clarity by demystifying South-South Cooperation (SSC) in terms of its context, objectives, scope and policy framework. The study will explore the practicalities of SSC in South Asia by assessing their modalities and instruments and their effectiveness. Specific experiences of SSC through empirical evidence and case studies will be revisited and will consider how existing cooperation frameworks support learn from and build on these experiences. Another important aspect of the study is to contribute to the first Ministerial meeting of the Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) in Mexico.
NCAER will provide consultancy services for preparing Model Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contracts for Dedicated Freight Corridors . The objectives are to moderate and balance the complexities of the present Planning Commission document on the Engineering and Procurement Contract (EPC). In the present document there is a lack of coordination with respect to the areas related to (1) civil works, (2) electrical/mechanical portion and (3) signalling. The basic purpose of this study will be to combine all these areas into a unified model to expedite the work for the dedicated freight corridors in India
Modern airports offer a variety of economic services to the local community in terms of income, employment, and infrastructure. Not only do they offer direct benefits, they also create a significant amount of indirect benefits to other sectors directly or indirectly associated with airports. In this context, this study makes an attempt to assess the economic impact of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) on the regional (Maharashtra) and national (all India) economies in terms of output, value added and employment (number of jobs).
NCAER has been conducting periodic surveys of rural households since 1969. The ARIS/REDS datasets, collected in four rounds between 1971 and 2006, form a database on villages and households across India allowing analyses on the micro characteristics of households and their interactions at the village, district, state and national levels. As a panel dataset spanning three decades, the data from the surveys allow in-depth analysis of economic, social and demographic changes in rural India and provide an empirical view of the evolution of policy and its impact on households.
The first round (ARIS) in 1971 was intended to represent the entire rural population of India residing in 17 major states and covered 4,527 households in 259 villages. Follow-up surveys were conducted in 1982, 1999, and 2006 to re-visit the original households. The latest round in 2006 (agricultural season 2005-2006) had a sample size of 9,500 and included all the households surveyed in 1999 with approximately 8 new randomly selected households included in each village.
Each round of the survey had three components:
i) Listing sheets: The latest round involved a complete census of households in the surveyed villages while earlier rounds included a partial census.
ii) Village questionnaire: detailed data at the community/village level have been collected in all rounds.
iii) Household questionnaire: This provides information on assets and incomes by source; and agricultural inputs and outputs at the household level. In the 2006 round, crop-wise input and output information was added.
Decentralization, Rural governance and Inclusive Growth: Linkage and Implications is the main theme of the research at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. This research project is funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, under the program “Globalization, Growth and Poverty”. The major focus of work is to analyse various aspects of rural governance in an attempt to establish whether decentralization of governance and the creation of appropriate institutions are effective in achieving inclusive and pro-poor growth.
