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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

Mumbai: The slowdown in economic growth last fiscal and the resultant weakness in demand has hit small enterprises harder than their larger counterparts latest data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows.   Companies with revenue of less than Rs.25 crore saw sales contract by 63% in the year ended 31 March while companies...   Read More

NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research, is privileged to present the 2013-14 Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy for the third successive year in partnership with the India International Centre. The Mid-Year Review highlights the policy flip-flops and paralysis that plagued policymaking in New Delhi in the run up to...   Read More

NEW DELHI: Business confidence is on the upswing as companies are betting on a turnaround in the economy and improvement in the investment climate in the months ahead on the back of an expected reforms drive a survey by a think tank showed on Friday. The survey by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)...   Read More

Press Release The Business Confidence Index Quarter 1 2014-15 NCAER    Continued Upward Trajectory: Business Confidence on its Accelerated Growth Trend   The BCI rose by 13 per cent in June 2014 over April 2014 overshadowing the 3.8 per cent increase in April 2014 over January 2014. Out of the four components of BCI three...   Read More

HT Correspondent Hindustan Times  New Delhi August 29 2014 First Published: 18:06 IST(29/8/2014) | Last Updated: 11:15 IST(30/8/2014)   The Indian economy expanded at its fastest pace in two-and-a-half years in the quarter ending June on the back of a turnaround in manufacturing as sentiment was boosted by the Narendra Modi government’s measures to help...   Read More

NEW DELHI: Business confidence index continued to show upward trend for the quarter ended June 2014 on improving economic conditions and positive investment climate economic think-tank NCAER said today. The index rose by 17 per cent in June 2014 over April 2014 this year the think-tank said. "Out of the four components of BCI three...   Read More

Only 28 per cent of men aged 20-29 and with a college degree had a salaried job in 2005 which had slowly grown to 33 per cent by 2012.   From Naxalbari to the Arab Spring our popular imagination has seen the youth as the harbinger of revolution that breaks down the bastions of privilege....   Read More