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The research paper by the Chair Professor, Dr Anil Sharma on “Transformation in Indian Agriculture, Allied Sectors and Rural India: Is there less krishi in Bharat?” describe the work carried out by the NABARD Chair Unit at NCAER during August 2011 to July 2014.

This report has examined the effect of computerisation in district and subordinate courts across the country. The NCAER assessment study has found that the eCourts project has created awareness about computerisation among courts and about the application software, namely, Case Information System, among the important stakeholders; the project has achieved more than 90 percent in...   Read More

Despite repeated attempts, South Asian countries have managed only limited and sporadic success in mobilizing larger tax revenue. Tax-to-GDP ratios in most countries in the region remain below cross country averages and are considered inadequate to meet their financing needs. Underperformance in tax revenue generation does not seem due to paucity of tax policy reforms....   Read More

The NCAER Gas Price Pooling Study captures the macroeconomic impact of the increased power generation and its multiplier effects as a result of greater availability of gas, as well as the total costs of such a policy in the form of subsidies and revenue losses to other sectors. The net benefits are analysed under different...   Read More

 PM: Federal structure can be a “development mechanism” not merely a “Constitutional arrangement”   Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today said India`s federal structure should be viewed as a “development mechanism” rather than just a “constitutional arrangement.” Interacting with a group of 16 eminent economists from the United States the Prime Minister said his focus...   Read More

Three members of a Dalit family in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar were killed one of them decapitated before being thrown into a dry well in Jawkhede Khalsa village on the night of October 20. The investigation is still on and the jury out on whether it was an act of caste violence or the result of a...   Read More

The underlying purpose of trade agreements is to obtain access to resources and markets that help in increasing the value and volume of trade. This adds to the domestic income. Traditionally trade agreements are evaluated for their trade creation and diversion effects among the member countries based on the trade values. However national earnings are...   Read More

An upper-caste Gujarati family who ran a grocery shop in the US wanted to know the name of the Indian sitting next to them in a private van in Pennsylvania. When his name did not reveal his caste they probed further and asked for his surname. He said he was South Indian and didn't have...   Read More

Will limiting rural employment guarantees to the 200 poorest districts improve targeting? Probably not. Results from the India Human Development Survey suggest that targeting districts is likely to be ineffective—and that it may be better to target households.

In spite of the rising academic attention to path-dependency in social history, when it comes to the history of economic thinking, we seem to be stuck in a Markovian nirvana where debates of the past are forgotten under the onslaught of new ideas. Nowhere is this more evident than in the discourse on demographic dividend...   Read More