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In India, women still face numerous hurdles to access employment and, once employed, to access decision-making positions. Claudia Goldin’s winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences, with her comprehensive account of women’s earnings and their underrepresentation in the global labour market, has aroused renewed interest among the international community in the persistently low...   Read More

Each sequential release of GDP estimates by MoSPI (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation) generates considerable excitement. Yet, perhaps many of us are unaware that each year’s estimates are revised six times over a stretch of three years before they are finalized. For example, the first estimate of growth for the current year 2023-24, the...   Read More

ARTICLE I Sage Journals Impact of Product and Process Adoption Strategies on Business Expectations: Evidence from India During the Pandemic Bornali Bhandari, Samarth Gupta, Ajaya Kumar Sahu, and K S Urs January 2024

The number recently put forth by a government-constituted task force represents, at best, an interim assessment till the final report is out. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) released a report on “Logistics Cost in India Assessment and Long-term Framework” on December 14, 2023. The report is an outcome of a consultative approach...   Read More

Opinion: Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani. India is on the brink of a transformation that could change its economic and social future. Before the end of this decade, more Indians will use AI every day than in any other country in the world. What’s more, people in advanced economies will be surprised by the ways...   Read More

A growth trajectory of 6.5 to 7.5 %, centred around 7 %, is reasonable in the coming years, barring the eventuality of simultaneous external shocks. In view of its robust growth of 7.7 per cent during the first half of the current fiscal year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has upgraded the full-year growth...   Read More

In the Review, we summarise the economic and policy developments in India; monitor global developments of relevance to India; and showcase the pulse of the economy through an analysis of high-frequency indicators and the heat map. MRE Dec 2023 Report Click here for previous issues

Social cover. Instead of a region or income specific policy, a more universal approach would serve workers better. While the demand for social security for platform workers heats up, the question that crops up is can one design an exclusive social security system for platform workers? And even if one could design it (like Rajasthan),...   Read More

In India Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport can boast about being the first airport that has a “well planned, safe, smart and sustainable commercial district” adjacent to it that promotes work, play, world class cuisine, and entertainment to the travelers and socio-economic development to the airport community. While going to and from the airport one...   Read More

The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of socio-economic developments in India by the IHDS research community, based on the India Human Development Survey, jointly conducted by NCAER and the University of Maryland. While two earlier rounds of the survey were completed in 2004-05 and 2011-12, respectively, the third round has also been launched and...   Read More

If menstrual leave is made compulsory, it would further discourage employers from hiring female employees, causing women’s participation in work to shrink further. While the impact of the menstrual cycle varies for every female, the discomfort it brings may heavily affect their efficiency as workers. If a female employee already going through problems like PCOD...   Read More