National Council of Applied Economic Research
Building cutting-edge CGE/integrated models at the national/subnational levels is crucial for facilitating policy analysis in the domains of industry, trade, energy, environment and climate change.
Like many emerging economies, India faces two simultaneous fundamental economic challenges– increasing prosperity, and reducing emissions. At present, however, there is little understanding of how to combine a low-carbon energy transition in sectors like electricity or transportation with an ambitious, energy-driven development agenda. In this project, NCAER will modify its established computable general equilibrium (CGE)... Read More
"The economic stability of India is intricately linked to climatic patterns. Our collaboration with IGSD will help us build robust models to predict and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, particularly those stemming from Arctic ice melt, on our agriculture and economy."—says Sanjib Pohit The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global... Read More
COP28 emphasized that transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems is required in a just, orderly and equitable manner. Green transition is an imminent pressure on the economy as the global community is facing the challenge of sustainability, energy security and environmental protection. The target to achieve low carbon development growth for India requires... Read More
The Government of India announced a net-zero target to be achieved by 2070 and various ambitious short-term climate goals to be achieved by 2030 during the recent Conference of Parties-26 (COP-26) in Glasgow. However, the impact of energy transition on socio-economic aspects needs to be comprehensively understood. The policy intervention for achieving a low-carbon pathway... Read More
The Indian sub-continent showcases significant variations in terms of natural resources, capital and labour productivity, access to energy sources, and production methods. The entire geographical expanse of India falls under 15 agro-climatic zones, which are likely to be affected differently due to the impending climate change. Given these variations in agricultural, manufacturing, and energy production... Read More
NCAER will partner with ADB to build cutting-edge CGE modelling capacity in India in collaboration with the world’s leading CGE centers. Building on past CGE work and existing modelling capacity, the research institute will build dynamic, quarterly, and regional model variants to serve the policymaking community with economic policy simulations that enable better policy, program... Read More
An Integrated Modelling Approach for Assessing the Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of Low Carbon Pathways Incorporating specific strategies for achieving defined carbon emission reduction goals in the economic development agenda is crucial for India, given its development imperatives and consequences of its choice to the world. Choice of specific strategies in this context will have... Read More
The broad objective of the project is to estimate overall tax burden and elasticity of alcohol products for the last 10 years in 7 selected states (Delhi, MP, Sikkim, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh) of India. To attain this goal, the research study involves undertaking the specific tasks: Reviewing of the state wise price mechanisms... Read More
Before making any policy intervention, it is important to estimate the overall logistics costs, including the various associated components/elements in order to understand and identify the problem areas and arrive at meaningful solutions. This NCAER report symbolises a major step in the direction of quantification of logistics costs. Such an exercise, in fact, needs to... Read More
High Logistics Costs in India compared to countries with similar environment & state of development are matter of concern for manufacturing growth and comprehensive development of the country. Several reasons are often cited for high logistics costs namely, unfavourable policy regime, lack of multimodal transport system (heavy reliance on road transport), fragmented Storage infrastructure, presence... Read More
Sanjib Pohit is a Professor at NCAER. He is an experienced modeler in the area of trade and environment with 20 years of modelling experience. His domain of research experience includes science and technology policies, institutional economics, transport economics, input-output models, FDI, informal trade, automobile industry, and South Asian integration. Previously, he held position at... Read More
Devender Pratap is a Senior Fellow at NCAER. His current research interests include trade policy analysis/CGE modelling, GTAP database, social accounting matrix, input output analysis, construction of base-run for CGE modelling, macro-econometric modelling and agricultural/livestock economy. At NCAER, he has handled three major CGE models in single-country and multi-country frameworks. He has also been involved... Read More
Chetana Chaudhuri is a Fellow at NCAER. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Energy, Environment, Macroeconomics, Employment and Health Economics. She has previously been associated with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). She has worked on a... Read More
Suvajit Banerjee is a Fellow at the NCAER in the Research Theme of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling and Policy Analysis. He did his Ph.D. in Economics at the Viva Bharati University. He is a macroeconomic modeler with more than 3 years of post-PhD experience in policy-oriented research, focusing on trade and environmental issues. His work... Read More
Souryabrata Mohapatra is working as an Associate Fellow at NCAER in the National Growth and Macroeconomic Centre. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and M.Phil. from Revenshaw University, Cuttack ; Master’s in Economics from Madras School of Economics; and, Bachelor’s in Economics (Hons.) from Revenshaw University, Cuttack. Before... Read More
Amit Mitra is a Research Associate in the Computable General Equilibrium Modelling and Policy Analysis department at NCAER. Mr. Mitra holds a Master's degree in Economics, specializing in Trade and Finance, from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata. He has gained research experience through... Read More
Sovini Mondal is working as a Research Associate at NCAER. She has a postgraduate degree in Economics specializing in International Trade from Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune. She has a working experience at CUTS International, where she worked on projects like analyzing the impact of the inverted duty structures on multiple sectors and women's engagement... Read More
Sadhna Singh is working as a Research Team Assistant at NCAER.
