Our newsletter keeps you informed about our work: studies, publications, Op-Eds, events, other research engagements and discussions on various topics. You will find the back issues of the NCAER Newsletter below: Aug-Sept 2021
Download PDFEducation Satellite Account typically presents the financial flows within the domain of education, and is organised into a set of activities and products across various levels of education. These financial flows are presented for the two types of economic agents, that is, financing units and producing units. It provides a report card on the financial... Read More
With around 20 million tourists visiting the State every year, Himachal Pradesh thus has a huge tourism potential. Tourism activity contributes immensely to the creation of employment opportunities and also in enhancing the State’s income through a significant generation of demand for goods and services among tourists. It is thus, important to estimate the economic... Read More
The Land Policy Initiative at NCAER (N-LPI) is bringing out its second policy brief on ‘States Need to Expedite Action Plans for Improving Quality of Land Records & Services’ based on the work done on Land Records and Services Index. The latest round of N-LRSI 2021 shows that while there has been considerable progress by... Read More
In this first issue of the Monthly Review of the Economy, NCAER summarises the economic and policy developments in India; monitors global developments of relevance to India; and showcases the pulse of the economy through an analysis of high-frequency indicators and the heat map.
Download PDFGovernments, central banks, private firms and others need high frequency information on the state of the economy for their decision making. However, a key indicator like GDP is only available quarterly and that too with a lag. Hence decision makers use high frequency daily, weekly or monthly information to project GDP growth in a given... Read More
The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of publications, op-eds and data news based on the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), which was jointly conducted by NCAER and the University of Maryland in two waves, in 2004-05 and 2011-12. Preparations are underway for launching the third wave soon.
Download PDFThe NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI) has been prepared to measure the actual extent of digitisation of land records and the registration process against the achievement reflected on the website of the Department of Land Resources, Government of India. The N-LRSI also seeks to gauge the improvements in basic land record-related services and... Read More
This report is from a study conducted by the NCAER and the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It seeks to explore the treatment seeking pathways and associated cost of the people living in Odisha and Uttar Pradesh in relation to a chronic respiratory condition among adults, an acute respiratory... Read More
The NCAER recently undertook a study on cooperative agro-processing and identification of institutional financial lacunae in the cooperative movement The cooperative movement in India has regained focus after the Union Government recently created a Ministry of Cooperation to provide a separate administrative legal and policy framework for streamlining the cooperatives. The move is expected to... Read More
Statutory regulatory authorities need autonomy in staffing their organisations with specialists who have integrity and knowledge Newspapers reported recently the call of the chairman of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) for a “standalone legislation”. NFRA is a relatively new regulator —largely invisible to the general public—constituted in October 2018 under Section 132 of the... Read More
With better transport and communication facilities this region has the potential to grow trade with bordering nations. The ‘Look East’ policy of 1991 gave way to the ‘Act East’ policy” of 2015. The objective of the latter is to promote economic cooperation cultural ties and strategic relationship with countries in the Asia-Pacikc region. This would... Read More