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Economic insecurity caused by lockdowns during the early days of Covid-19 forced many households to rely on government welfare schemes to fulfil their consumption needs. Using data from the June 2020 round of the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey this article shows that few households received both foodgrains and cash transfers particularly in urban areas...   Read More

Whether in Tripura or Haryana there is little interaction between MSMEs and the ITIs. District Industries Centres should step in Developing and implementing a vocational skill development policy for micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is a challenging exercise especially for emerging countries. While imparting of vocational skills should typically be demand-driven MSMEs have neither...   Read More

Gram Swaraj recently got a fillip as Government okayed continuation of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan One of the unique features of governance in India is that its rural landscape is characterised by a system wherein each village and local unit is responsible for upgrading its own administrative structure and executing its developmental activities. This is...   Read More

The right to obtain a legal abortion is vital to reduce inequalities The United States Supreme Court seems poised to overturn its own 1973 ruling regarding women’s right to privacy as they seek abortion. The 1973 judgment in Roe vs Wade was a landmark judgment in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22 1973 ruled...   Read More

NCAER is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Mridul Saggar as the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPF) Chair Professor at NCAER. He joins the Chair today. The Chair has been established with the support of the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in the Government of...   Read More

In her February 1 2022 budget speech Nirmala Sitharaman announced GoI's commitment to issuing a digital rupee. The relevant text ran three sentences in its entirety. 'Introduction of [a] central bank digital currency (CBDC) will give a big boost to digital economy. Digital currency will also lead to a more efficient and cheaper currency management...   Read More

Performance index based on 11 parameters shows ports in the east and south are lagging  India has been making concerted efforts to expand its merchandise exports footprint. And rightly so as exports act as an engine of growth. The objectives of production linked incentive (PLI) schemes or of India becoming a part of the global value...   Read More

Transport connectivity between India’s N-E and the eastern neighbourhood can improve. But trade gains per se seem limited. After a gap of four years the BIMSTEC (comprising Bangladesh Bhutan India Mynamar Nepal Sri Lanka and Thailand) summit was held virtually in last week of March to deliberate on the prospects and way forward of this...   Read More

Claims and counter-claims have characterized the debate about the scenario of employment and unemployment in the country. Both Government and private agencies shell out various shades of data and information to prove a point. Going by the official data set it is seen that Government collects and collate employment data using various methodologies one of...   Read More

Several changes may have taken place in the lives of Indian women but gendered realities continue to reflect in their status in a family every day. The iconic utterance by French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr more than 150 years ago “The more things change the more they remain the same” accurately sums up the current...   Read More