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Until a viable vaccine is found finding new ways to cope with the unexpected seems to be our only recourse to brace against the unexpected challenges thrown by the virus When the famous US family therapist Virginia Satir talked about coping with life’s adversities she was unlikely to have had images of a pandemic like...   Read More

To reach self-sufficiency India needs to reduce Chinese imports. But it must do this in a way that does not violate WTO norms The India-China relationship is now at a nadir following border clashes in the Ladakh region. The ‘Boycott China’ war cry reverberates across India. Though it emanates mostly from common people or consumers...   Read More

The pandemic has afflicted India at a time when its economy had already been decelerating. Defying a long-term accelerating path, real GDP growth moderated from 7.0 percent in 2017-18 to 6.1 percent in 2018-19 and 4.2 percent in 2019-20. The pre-COVID-19 growth deceleration was perceived to be due to long-standing structural rigidities in key input...   Read More

Daily wage labourers in Delhi-NCR were the most disadvantaged during the lockdown and are still finding it hard to find work. But even among the salaried class work participation rates remain far below pre-lockdown levels As India’s economy limps back to life combating pandemic fears and fixing transport and logistical challenges may be key to...   Read More

Ensuring food security is critical at the juncture. Providing universal PDS is financially feasible as FCI has more stock than we need   The NCAER Quarterly Review of the Economy June 2020 has estimated that despite the ₹20 trillion Atmanirbhar Bharat package the economy in all likelihood will suffer from negative growth and elevated inflation...   Read More

This project jointly conducted by NCAER and the Tata Centre for Development at UChicago, studies the health and livelihood implications of a particular riverine community, that is, fisher folk, along selected polluted stretches of the Ganga river. The study conducted in two phases entails conduction of water experiments using censors, along with in-person interviews and...   Read More

This NCAER study examines the economic benefits of investments made by the Ministry of Earth Sciences in the National Monsoon Mission (NMM) and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities and their role in improving the accuracy of monsoonal rainfall predictions. The study finds that improvements in weather forecasts, disseminated by India Meteorological Department, have resulted in...   Read More

The 16th India Policy Forum 2019 Volume comprises papers and highlights of the discussions at the India Policy Forum (IPF) held in New Delhi on July 8–10, 2019.The Annual IPF Lecture for 2019 was delivered on July 9 to a packed audience at NCAER by Professor Stanley Fischer, Former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, US...   Read More

Regulations of industrial municipal inflow in Ganga at the centre of pollution mitigation policies have dissociated rivers from riverine communities. The quality of water in rivers Ganga and Yamuna did not improve despite four decades of pollution-mitigation measures. But they did within 10 days of the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the...   Read More

Placing money in the hands of people could help save lives as our economy looks set to shrink this year and possibly the next. The coronavirus pandemic reached India late giving us a chance to learn from the experience of countries where it had spread earlier. Drawing on that experience an unprecedented country-wide lockdown was...   Read More

India has disappointed itself hugely in the way it handled the migrant labour issue. Why is the government being so tight-fisted in its support for the poor? Scenes of migrant labour returning home thirsty hungry and helpless shall be a scar on India forever. Images of men women and children walking in 44 degrees Celsius...   Read More

This sector has developed locally without following global standards.  Most players agree that setting standards and their voluntary adoption are the only way for reducing costs After the extended lockdown necessitated by the need to contain the spread of the deadly Coronavirus in the country the process of kick-starting the economy has now commenced in...   Read More