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Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday invoked ‘dosa economics’ to explain that pensioners are better off in the regime of falling inflation. Delivering the C D Deshmukh memorial lecture in the capital he said that a pensioner would be able to buy more number of dosas from lower interest income provided the inflation remained...   Read More

New Delhi (January 29 2016):  Dr Raghuram Rajan Governor of the Reserve Bank of India delivered NCAER’s 4th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on January 29 2016 to an audience of distinguished economists civil servants industry analysts and economics students.  Dr Rajan’s speech is attached in its entirety. Dr Bimal Jalan Chairman of India’s Expenditure...   Read More

"Timely" weather forecast services to 11.5 million peasants resulted in economic profit worth Rs 42000 crore during 2015 Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said today. He also made a strong pitch for expanding the web of facilities to all farmers to attain estimated profit of Rs 3.20 lakh crore. Referring to a report...   Read More

NEW DELHI: Indian farmers had a difficult year in 2015 and their prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016 a report by economic policy thinktank NCAER said.The research policy institute said according to its estimate growth in agriculture and allied sector in the second quarter of FY 201516 is likely to be 2.2 per cent...   Read More

NEW DELHI (January 13 2016) - Battling extremes of drought and unseasonal rains complicated now by a warm winter the Indian farmer had a difficult year in 2015 and his prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016. This has resulted in farmer distress and may lead to a decline in food-grain output in 2016 for...   Read More

Indian farmers had a difficult year in 2015 and their prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016 a report by economic policy thinktank NCAER said. The research policy institute said according to its estimate growth in agriculture and allied sector in the second quarter of FY 2015-16 is likely to be 2.2 per cent as...   Read More

The Agriculture and allied sector GVA growth in the second quarter of FY 2015-16 is estimated at 2.2 per cent compared to 1.9 per cent in first quarter. The exceptionally dry start to the rabi season has affected sowing in all major rabi crops such as wheat, gram and rapeseed/mustard. Overall, the current outlook for...   Read More

The Vijay Kelkar Committee has recommended stricter regulatory oversight of airports and cooperation amongst customs immigration and other government agencies with a view to improving service delivery. Airports at Mumbai Delhi Bengaluru and Hyderabad have been developed under the public-private partnership (PPP) route. In its draft civil aviation policy too the government had said it...   Read More

Administrative fiat is certainly not the best option in the absence of accurate data on vehicular pollution During the late 1990s the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) worked with six countries in comprehensive projects to identify the impact of liberalisation on environmental resources and the use of economic instruments to sustainably manage these impacts. The...   Read More

New Delhi:  An evaluation study on functioning of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in six selected States namely Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Karnataka Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal was awarded to the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in March 2014 and final report was accepted in the Department in November 2015.  Based on 2011...   Read More