Researchers Publication

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

NEW DELHI: India's business confidence index (BCI) moved up by 4.1 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal economic think-tank 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....   Read More

The research paper by the Chair Professor, Dr Anil Sharma on “Transformation in Indian Agriculture, Allied Sectors and Rural India: Is there less krishi in Bharat?” describe the work carried out by the NABARD Chair Unit at NCAER during August 2011 to July 2014.

This report has examined the effect of computerisation in district and subordinate courts across the country. The NCAER assessment study has found that the eCourts project has created awareness about computerisation among courts and about the application software, namely, Case Information System, among the important stakeholders; the project has achieved more than 90 percent in...   Read More

Despite repeated attempts, South Asian countries have managed only limited and sporadic success in mobilizing larger tax revenue. Tax-to-GDP ratios in most countries in the region remain below cross country averages and are considered inadequate to meet their financing needs. Underperformance in tax revenue generation does not seem due to paucity of tax policy reforms....   Read More

The NCAER Gas Price Pooling Study captures the macroeconomic impact of the increased power generation and its multiplier effects as a result of greater availability of gas, as well as the total costs of such a policy in the form of subsidies and revenue losses to other sectors. The net benefits are analysed under different...   Read More

 PM: Federal structure can be a “development mechanism” not merely a “Constitutional arrangement”   Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today said India`s federal structure should be viewed as a “development mechanism” rather than just a “constitutional arrangement.” Interacting with a group of 16 eminent economists from the United States the Prime Minister said his focus...   Read More

Three members of a Dalit family in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar were killed one of them decapitated before being thrown into a dry well in Jawkhede Khalsa village on the night of October 20. The investigation is still on and the jury out on whether it was an act of caste violence or the result of a...   Read More