National Council of Applied Economic Research
Agriculture continues to be critical to India’s economy given its role in meeting the needs of food and fibre for over a billion people and providing livelihoods to millions of households in the rural areas.India is a major producer and consumer of several basic food commodities. The challenge is to meet the diversified and increased... Read More
The telecommunications sector plays an increasingly important role in the Indian economy. It contributes to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), generates revenue for the government and creates employment. The report presents the evolution of the telecommunications sector in India in the decade between 2001 and 2011. The total number of telephone subscribers has grown at a... Read More
This paper models the perverse impact of increased devolution of funds from higher to lower level governments (village councils or Panchayats) on tax revenues collected This paper models the perverse impact of increased devolution of funds from higher to lower level governments (village councils or Panchayats) on tax revenues collected by the latter. We show... Read More
In this paper we show that investments to improve the supply and management of water reduce the time spent in fetching water by both men and women, which in turn will lead to a reallocation of the time saved to productive activities, and result in increased incomes. Using the national ARIS/REDS panel data of the... Read More
Has the devolution of responsibilities and finances to local governments in India produced positive impacts on health status and incomes of men and women? Using a national data set with details on health, health seeking behavior and local governance, we estimate a system of simultaneous equations to analyze the incidence of illness via a health... Read More
A significant concern in economies like India is the inability of large sections of its population to adequately access services such as water and education. This problem is particularly magnified in the rural areas where problems of low levels of literacy, and inadequate access to drinking water have lead to a large number of pathologies... Read More
This study analysed the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls by examining a cross section of issues such as household income, savings, consumption as well as education, health and levels of stigma and discrimination. The study, conducted in 2004-05 by the NCAER, with the support of UNDP and NACO, was based on... Read More
Indian democracy was a huge success from the beginning until recently when serious questions emerged about governance which we now must address. Economics (which the authors address in the book and forms its main theme) was a disaster at the outset because of a counterproductive policy framework, embraced and defended for long by most economists... Read More
This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution and performance of SEZs from historical and comparative perspectives by tracing the experiences of SEZs in 23 developing countries including Korea, Taiwan, and China. Using a framework that integrates the basic tenets of the industrial cluster approach with existing theories, it proposes a set of evaluation... Read More
The study report provides an assessment of the impact of expanding air travel and the civil aviation sector in India by using the experience of one of the largest international carriers operating in India - Emirates Airlines. Emirates began its operations in India in the mid-1980s and carried 12 per cent of India’s international passengers... Read More
