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India was among the hardest hit by the Fed’s ‘taper talks’. This column argues that this impact was large for two reasons. First, India received huge capital flows before. This had made it a convenient target for investors seeking to rebalance away from emerging markets. Second, macroeconomic conditions had worsened, which rendered the economy vulnerable....   Read More

New numbers shed light on what the typical Indian marriage looks like   I wrote last week on inter-caste marriage and how just five per cent of women in the National Council of Applied Economic Research’s (NCAER) pan-India survey said that theirs had been an inter-caste marriage. The numbers got me thinking about arranged marriage...   Read More

30 per cent of rural and 20 per cent of urban households said they practised untouchability   Just five per cent of Indians said they had married a person from a different caste says the first direct estimate of inter-caste marriages in India.   The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) conducted by the National Council...   Read More

In its mid-year review of the economy the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has lowered its 2014-15 growth forecast for India to 5 per cent. In July the think-tank had put out a growth forecast of 5.7 per cent. The projection of a slowdown is despite the 5.7 per-cent growth in the first...   Read More

With an uncertain global outlook much work is still ahead   The India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi has been organising an annual mid-year review of the Indian economy for a long time in collaboration with different research institutions each year. This year's edition was presented by the National Council of Applied Economic Research...   Read More

Fundamentals of economy remain weak with uncertainties prevailing   India’s economic recovery is still elusive according to economic think-tank NCAER which forecast a slower GDP growth this financial year unlike other forecasts including that of government.     In its mid-year review of the economy for this financial year NCAER said GDP growth would be...   Read More

NEW DELHI: The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has lowered India's GDP growth forecast to 5 per cent in the current financial year on weak economical fundamentals and uncertainties in growth prospects.    The economic think-tank in its earlier projection had suggested that the Indian economy was likely to grow at 5.7 per...   Read More

The mid-year review of the economy by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) released here on Saturday paints a sobering picture with the outlook for 2014-15 worsening from the beginning of the financial year.   After growing at 5.7 per cent in the first quarter the NCAER estimates the gross domestic product will...   Read More

This paper by NCAER project team led by Dr Rajesh Chadha, Senior Research Counsellor, been produced under the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Programme on Competitiveness and Development. The objective of this study is to analyse the likely impacts of the trade preference scheme on India and the AFLDCs. The study is...   Read More

The "tapering talk" starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the U.S. central bank reducing its security purchases, had a sharp negative impact on emerging markets. India was among those hardest hit. The rupee depreciated by 18 percent at one point, causing concerns that the...   Read More

This is the first in a series of reports that NCAER has prepared on detailed tourism satellite accounts for the states and Union Territories of India. This study was commissioned by the Ministry of Tourism in the Government of India in 2013 to compile Regional Tourism Satellite Account for all states and UTs of India...   Read More

India may finally be on the verge of making progress on eradicating one of its most intractable problems: open defecation because of a lack of toilets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves credit for focusing on the scourge. But it will take more than words to solve a problem the nation’s leaders have been promising to...   Read More