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The Quarterly Agricultural Outlook provides an overview of agricultural trends both globally and at the national level. Agriculture continues to be critical to India’s economy given its role in meeting the food and fibre needs of over a billion people and providing livelihoods to millions of households in rural areas. India is a major producer...   Read More

Household Behaviour:Savings Indian households have always accounted for the major share of gross domestic savings. But, they seem to have lost the savings habit now. Poverty: States’ Barometer of Misery level Worldwide, when the economy takes a tumble, economic predictors turn to the numbers, comparing the downturn to past recessions. Infrastructure: Decay of Railways This article compares the...   Read More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The State government is for consensus on the problems being faced by the people Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. Inaugurating an interaction session with selected college students from across the State on the Kerala Perspective Plan 2030 at the Old Assembly Hall here on Thursday Mr. Chandy said the government was for consensus on...   Read More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The draft of the State Planning Board ’s ambitious Kerala Perspective Plan 2030 was presented before vital stakeholders of the future namely students here on Thursday. Around a 100 post-graduate students and researchers from various institutions across the state including those from the universities of Kerala and Calicut Central University at Kasargod College of Engineering...   Read More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Perspective Plan-2030 prepared by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) raises a concern. The Kerala state might soon have to deal with the Dutch Disease a negative development trend pushed by several positive development indicators. Dutch Disease is defined as development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency...   Read More

Macroeconomy: Where are the Jobs? Continued economic slowdown has a very real impact, i.e., on jobs. Gender: Gender Inequality and Women Political Participation in India Gender inequality is one of the most deep-rooted forms of inequality in a traditional society such as India. External: Gold: Safe Haven In times of crisis, people turn to the safest saving that one...   Read More

Purpose – This paper aims to survey India’s experience with exporting services. The authors seek to show that the country’s experience is unique in that modern tradable services are a significantly larger share of GDP than in other countries at comparable levels of economic development. This has not always been the case, however; India’s out-performance...   Read More

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in its April 2013 Quarterly Review of the Economy has projected that the Indian economy would grow at 6.2 per cent in 2013-14 led by a reasonable growth in agriculture. For this year the think tank projected agriculture sector growth at 3.2 per cent against a growth...   Read More

Business Expectations: FY 2012-13 Ends with Lower Busines Sentiments Forecast: Re-assessing the Macroeconomic Scene for 2013-14 Infrastructure: India's Aviation Sector during FY 2012-13: A Closer View

There is a glimmer of hope after the economy came to a "standstill" in the third quarter of 2012-13, growing at 4.5 per cent. Things may have just turned for the better with agriculture performing better than expected. There is recovery of merchandise exports in the fourth quarter of 2012-13.