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Gujarat Delhi and Tamil Nadu are the best places to make fresh investments in India while Jharkhand Uttar Pradesh and Bihar lag on this front a latest survey by think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has revealed. The NCAER State Investment Potential Index (N-SIPI) is based on five pillars such as labour infrastructure...   Read More

New Delhi: Businesses ranked Gujarat Delhi and Tamil Nadu as the top three states for making new investments and corruption emerged as the biggest concern for investors according to a survey by New Delhi­based think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). A ranking based on the success rate of states in implementing 98 regulatory...   Read More

As call drop menace continues Telecom Secretary J S Deepak today put the blame on large-scale shutting down of towers for "health reasons" and said states are not able to implement their commitments. He also said that the complaints of call drops were like people refusing to allow water tanks on their roof-tops and at...   Read More

Corruption is the biggest constraint being faced by businessmen across states in the country says a survey of economic think tank NCAER. "The results (of the survey) indicate that corruption emerged as the biggest problem" it said adding that business enterprises have consistently ranked corruption as the major obstacle for growth. The NCAER State Investment Potential Index also...   Read More

The Union Budget lacks political boldness as the government has frittered away its political capital on issues irrelevant to the economy said political scientist and president and chief executive of Centre for Policy Research (CPR) Pratap Bhanu Mehta. “There is no political boldness in the budget. The Government’s political capital has been spent (on) cultural...   Read More

The main objectives of this report are to first calculate its GSDP for the five years starting from 2008–09 to 2012–13 as mandated by the UT Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The second objective is to use the calculated GSDP to identify the opportunities and challenges and the third objective is to recommend a...   Read More

NCAER-State Investment Potential Index or N-SIPI is an evidence-based index that combines published secondary data on key relevant parameters with an extensive industry survey conducted by NCAER across twenty states and the Union Territory of Delhi. It is uniquely poised to provide a single composite investment score designed to give a comprehensive measure of how...   Read More

This study is targeted at bringing the focus of high-level policy attention on the urgent need to revamp India’s FDI statistical system for an accurate view of Foreign Direct Investment inflows a / outflows and their impact. The study will achieve the following objectives: Strengthening FDI data frameworks in adherence to international conventions. Streamlining structural...   Read More

NCAER computed the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) Daman and Diu for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13. The UT is dominated by registered manufacturing. Its per capita income is approximately five times that of India. However, the growth of the economy had faltered during the period of the study, with slowing growth in manufacturing. Share...   Read More

New Delhi: The weatherman is getting better at his job. Or so the farmers feel. Reliability of weather information has improved in the past two to four years according to nine out of ten farmers in six states and a Union Territory. The only two exceptions were Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh where more farmers said...   Read More

A report prepared by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) for the agriculture ministry has pegged India’s wheat production in 2015-16 would be 85 million tonnes (mt) — 1.5 mt less than the final estimate of 2014-15. This is in stark contrast with the government’s estimate that production in 2015-16 would be 7.3...   Read More

New Delhi Feb 18 (PTI) Railways freight volume is likely to grow by 2.1 per cent in the next fiscal as compared to its one per cent growth in 2015-16 according to a study. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) study on factors impacting railway freight traffic in India presented to Railway Minister Suresh...   Read More