Researchers Publication

Two in five Indian women didn’t choose their spouse and about one in two was married before the legal age of 18 according to a new study that paints a grim statistical picture of married women across the country. The National Council for Applied Economic Research a New Delhi-based think tank based their findings on interviews...   Read More

Sonalde Desai On International Women’s Day the Election Commission of India held a special campaign to bring women voters to the polls. Although men and women vote at a more or less similar rate in State elections women are 6-8 percentage points behind in the Lok Sabha elections where national issues dominate. These disparities prompt...   Read More

Four out of ten women in India still have no say in their marriage eight out of ten need permission to visit a doctor six out of ten practise some form of head covering and the average Indian household gives over Rs. 30000 in dowry. These are among the findings of a major new large-scale...   Read More

Indian households have always accounted for the major share of gross domestic savings. But they seem to have lost the savings habit now. You can blame some of that on consumerism. But what explains the fall in the share of their savings in financial instruments? Received wisdom says persistently high inflation since 2009. Years of...   Read More

Despite their significance and importance to the economy, research on domestic remittances in India has been severely limited by the lack of nationally representative data on such remittances.

Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads to a decrease in domestic violence. In this paper, we study the relationship between women employment and domestic violence in India. We used a nationally representative...   Read More

After a slide in the second quarter of the present fiscal higher exports enhanced farm produce and moderation in inflation improved business confidence during the October-December period think-tank NCAER said on Monday. The Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose by 21.8 per cent in theJanuary 2014 survey over the previous quarter the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)...   Read More

New Delhi Wednesday 5 February 2014: At a seminar held at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on the State of Economy the following observations reviews and projections were made by the Council through a presentation and release of their quarterly report titled “Quarterly Review of the Economy”.  

GDP Growth rate for 2014-15 is projected at 5.1 - 5.5 per cent. The higher growth of 5.5 per cent is conditional on pick upon investment spending. WPI based average inflation rate projected at 6.1 per cent for 2014-15. Fiscal deficit for the center estimated at 4.5 per cent of GDP for 2014-15.   New...   Read More

In May 2013, Federal Reserve officials first began to talk of the possibility of tapering their security purchases. This tapering talk had a sharp negative impact on emerging markets. Different countries, however, were affected very differently. This paper uses data on exchange rates, foreign reserves and equity prices between April and August 2013 to analyze...   Read More

Forecast Overall, the projections for 2013-14 based on quarterly and annual models point to a GDP growth of 4.7-4.9 per cent. While agricultural growth is projected to return to more normal level, improvement in thegrowth of non-agricultural sectors is projected to lead to overall GDP growth of 5.6 per cent in 2014-15. Agriculture Agrichultural forecasts...   Read More

Labour: 100 Days under MGNREGA: Reality or Myth? The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was notified on September 7, 2005. Industry: Drivers of Poor Manufacturing Growth The fiscal year 2013–14 was marked by slow growth and high inflation. External: Diaspora and Development through Business Networks The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has...   Read More