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The following article in The Hindu by its the National Data Editor Rukmini S features important evidence gathered from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) conducted periodically by NCAER in collaboration with the University of Maryland. IHDS is India’s only national longitudinal panel data set and provides considerable opportunities for researchers to generate high quality...   Read More

This note summarises the findings of interviews with senior Indian policy-makers and FDI researchers to ascertain the adequacy of India’s FDI statistics in answering important FDI policy and research questions. The principal gaps identified are: lack of data on the operations of foreign firms in India, on the state and district break-up of FDI inflows,...   Read More

This note summarises the findings from NCAER’s analysis of the written questions on FDI that Members of Parliament (MPs) submitted in Parliament between 2 July 2009 and 21 February 2014. While the purpose of this analysis was to understand the types of FDI-related information MPs typically seek when considering FDI issues in Parliament, it revealed...   Read More

The NCAER study assesses the economic impact of Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, one of the largest airports in the country, on the regional and national economy. This has been done by analyzing the direct, indirect and induced impact of aviation sector in terms of value addition and employment generation, which will boost up the economy....   Read More

Poverty and environmental factors are interlinked and hold crucial importance for economic development. The poor depend so much on their natural resource base and primary production sources that the degradation of the environment has a disproportionately deleterious impact on their livelihoods. This book is a thematic collection of previously unpublished essays on the condition of...   Read More

This article published in  Deccan Herald is written by Dr Saurabh Bandyopadhyay an Associate Fellow at NCAER. The expectations of a huge policy-based turnaround in the Railway Budget proposal for 2015-16 has turned out to be dismal in substance. The Indian Railways (IR) is a distinctively Indian institution with an amazing legacy and record that the...   Read More

The proposed gas price pooling policy of the government is expected to increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.50-0.88 per cent says a study. "The gas price pooling policy would lead to an increase in GDP of 0.50 per cent or Rs 69431 crore with a plant load factor of 30 per cent 0.7 per...   Read More

NEW DELHI: The proposed gas price pooling policy of the government is expected to increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.50-0.88 per cent says a study. "The gas price pooling policy would lead to an increase in GDP of 0.50 per cent or Rs 69431 crore with a plant load factor of 30 per...   Read More

NCAER the National Council of Applied Economic Research has conducted a timely study evaluating the benefits and costs of pooling the price of domestic and imported natural gas for the power sector.  The research study was sponsored by GMR Energy Limited. The proposed gas price pooling policy would pool the existing limited supply of domestic...   Read More

The Ordinance issued for the amendment to Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 has raised more controversy. The debate has unfortunately not been looked at from a proper perspective. The issues are as follows: over the last 67 years since Independence the nature of our economy has...   Read More

With no financial capacity to save and invest a dismal record of use of bank accounts and the severe lack of trust in the current model of using business correspondents it is extremely difficult to envisage how opening of bank accounts will slowly help inculcate the habit of saving among the poor. The government needs...   Read More

India's business confidence index (BCI) moved up by 4.1 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal economic thin-ktank NCAER said today. "The NCAER Business Confidence Index (BCI) increased by 4.1 per cent over the previous quarter from 142.5 in October 2014 to 148.4 in December" it said in a release. The BCI index rose...   Read More