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While large farmers can be given insurance small and marginal farmers can be provided with assurance In view of the rain-induced crop damage in the southern States crop insurance is once again likely to come into focus. Majority of the agricultural households (70 per cent) own land less than one hectare (2018-19). Farmers are vulnerable...   Read More

India could nudge the US and China towards a win-win rather than zero-sum relationship on the critical issues we all face. Way back in 1972 a study on ‘The Limits of Growth’ commissioned by The Club of Rome had issued a dire Malthusian warning that without significant curbs on the observed pattern of resource consumption...   Read More

Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath This is not the first time Das has urged caution on cryptos. His speech on Tuesday coming days after the PM convened a meeting on the issue last Saturday draws an important distinction between using technologies like blockchain for economic progress and for mining cryptos. Karl Marx today may well have said ‘Cryptocurrency...   Read More

NCAER Professor, Sonalde Desai, who holds a joint appointment as Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland, has recently been appointed to the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences based in Washington, D.C. The Committee on Population was established by the Academy in 1983 to bring the knowledge and methods of the...   Read More

Increased awareness and usage of government schemes may be partly responsible for the upswing in credit take among businesses in India. Growth in non-food credit slowed down to single digits since 2019–20:Q2.  In the NCAER Business Expectations Survey Round 116 conducted in March 2021 we had found t hat demand cost and non-monetary factors were...   Read More

The literature points to the importance of prior financial conditions (capital inflows and real appreciation in the pre-taper period) financial market structure (the size of financial markets) and select macroeconomic variables in explaining the differential impact of the taper announcement. Specifically countries more dependent on external finance prior to Ben Bernanke's 2013 announcement of the...   Read More

Despite a huge central assistance commitment of ₹1.8 lakh crore PMAY-U has not been able to achieve the desired goal of meeting the affordable housing demand and solve deep rooted issues associated with the housing market in the country. At a recent event Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave away keys to seventy five thousand beneficiaries...   Read More

The Journal of Applied Economic Research (JAER) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal published by NCAER in New Delhi in conjunction with SAGE International.  JAER publishes papers that pay special attention to the economics of emerging economies, but is open to high-quality papers from all fields of applied economics. Volume 15 Issue 4, Nov 2021...   Read More

Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath Sad truth is the only time G20 delivered on its promises was when interests of advanced economies were threatened after GFC — with urgency. Landmark historic pathbreaking — all these words and more have been used to describe the global agreement on corporate tax rates pioneered by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation...   Read More

The Journal of Applied Economic Research (JAER) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal published by NCAER in New Delhi in conjunction with SAGE International. JAER publishes papers that pay special attention to the economics of emerging economies, but is open to high-quality papers from all fields of applied economics. Volume 15 Issue 4, Nov 2021...   Read More