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India must adopt a holistic gender strategy consisting of fiscal, administrative, and regulatory measures, combined with public messaging and mindset changes. Globally, the average workforce participation is 50 per cent for women and 80 per cent for men. In India, the corresponding ratio is similar for men, but strikingly lower for women, at under 30...   Read More

Gender ideologies often prompt couples to assign women to take over extra family duties while men remain free to concentrate on their careers. When women were missing from the labour force, that was because they were home caring for children; when they were paid less than men, that was because they had lower education than...   Read More

As we marked the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, it may be apt to ruminate about two other festivals soon to be widely celebrated across India—Durga Puja, when obeisance is paid to Maa Durga, the goddess of power and strength, and Diwali, when Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped as the harbinger of...   Read More

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The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of publications, op-eds and data news based on the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), 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 is currently underway....   Read More

This report is the outcome of a study undertaken jointly by NCAER and the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on healthcare seeking pathways to improve healthcare and reduce the overall disease burden in India. The report covers various parameters of these health...   Read More

This is the Executive Summary of the report based on a study undertaken jointly by NCAER and the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on healthcare seeking pathways to improve healthcare and reduce the overall disease burden in India. This report presents new...   Read More

This Policy Brief is based on a joint study conducted by NCAER and the Nossal Institute of Global Health, Melbourne University, on health seeking pathways in four Indian States. It is found that the health system in India is largely unregulated, and devoid of quality assurance mechanisms, leaving healthcare seekers susceptible to exploitation by unscrupulous...   Read More

This Policy Brief is based on a joint study conducted by NCAER and the Nossal Institute of Global Health, University of Melbourne, on health seeking pathways in four Indian States. The authors observe that the public expenditure incurred on health in India, at just 0.9 per cent of the GDP, is low, and that the...   Read More

The real growth rate of the Indian economy in the April-June quarter of 2023-24 (Q1, FY24), according to the latest data released by the Central Statistical Office (CSO), stood at 7.8 per cent. Market economists embraced this data as reflective of their own projections, and in line with their consensus forecast. After factoring in the...   Read More

Govindraj Ethiraj, financial journalist talks to Bornali Bhandari, Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research.  [04:21] Why are gig workers, including food delivery staff, graduate degree holders? What does this say about their mobility and the relative power of the degree? The NCAER a few weeks ago released a survey titled Socio Economic...   Read More