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Using forecasting techniques Governments and industrial organisations around the world have made estimates of various social and economic parameters such as growth of future labour force population size et al. India must not lag behind For the last decade or so the Government has been strongly encouraging the Indian firms to come up with indigenous...   Read More

The most popular trend in the institution of marriage in India is a mix of a love and arranged match. Its implications need to be studied in depth It is said that a successful marriage requires falling in love many times but always with the same person. This idiom can be interpreted in different ways...   Read More

The survey covered 1049 units in 20 states and Delhi ranking them on their investment potential based on the six major metrics.  The efforts towards improving the business climate started some years ago and deepened when the government’s flagship initiatives Make in India and Start-Up India took centre stage. The department of industrial promotion and...   Read More

Minor ports in India do not act as a growth engine unlike in developed countries. Mere development of infrastructure will not make them financially viable. Strategy must focus on creating economic epicentres around minor ports India has a coastline of 7500 km and is studded with 12 major ports and close to 200 minor ports....   Read More

It’s troubling that women have a higher rate of mental ailments than men. The need is to guide them so that they can emerge from the inner recesses of conservative and patriarchal households Women in India have traditionally been perceived to be two-three times more vulnerable than men to mental ailments stemming from psycho-social factors...   Read More

Margin: 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. Empirical papers with significant policy...   Read More

This inaugural data brief has been brought out by the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), which has been set up by NCAER with its consortium partners, University of Maryland and University of Michigan. The data brief, based on research from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), highlights the key factors that account for the declining...   Read More

The National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) has been set up by NCAER with its consortium partners, University of Maryland and University of Michigan. India’s rapid transformation has led to a growing demand from researchers and policymakers for high-quality and policy-relevant data. Changing socio-economic conditions also necessitate rethinking of the kind of data that are collected,...   Read More

The report addresses the skilling challenge faced by the country.  Policymakers in India face the triple challenge of incentivising the creation of more well-paying jobs, creating efficient pathways to skill acquisition and job matching to ensure workers have the right skills, and protecting low-paid, low-skilled workers with social security benefits. An additional challenge comes from...   Read More

Government’s biodiesel programme holds the potential of sustainable entrepreneurship development and meeting all three objectives of economic growth — social equity job creation and environmental sustainability The Government’s launch of a biodiesel programme represents a unique case for the development of numerous sustainable entrepreneurs employment generation empowerment of the subaltern masses by providing them ownership/occupational...   Read More