National Council of Applied Economic Research
Opinion: Aakash Dev. Thozhi Hostels deliver high-quality housing solutions for working women, overcoming migration challenges in urban areas. In recent years, India has seen a remarkable increase in female labour force participation, from 25 per cent in 2017-18 to 40 per cent in 2022-23, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey. This surge reflects growing... Read More
Opinion: Poonam Munjal and Palash Baruah The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The role of health as an engine of economic growth is not entirely unsubstantiated. Investments in health care lead to better healthier lives for... Read More
Opinion: Sanjib Pohit India needs to emphasise to the world where its scorecard is better than many of the developed countries who frequently lecture India on emission flows. Recently yet another COPs meeting was held in Glasgow. Compared to the low-key meetings in the last couple of years this year’s meeting seems to have ended... Read More
Opinion: Ajaya K Sahu and Bornali Bhandari While large farmers can be given insurance small and marginal farmers can be provided with assurance In view of the rain-induced crop damage in the southern States crop insurance is once again likely to come into focus. Majority of the agricultural households (70 per cent) own land less than... Read More
Opinion: Sudipto Mundle India could nudge the US and China towards a win-win rather than zero-sum relationship on the critical issues we all face. Way back in 1972 a study on ‘The Limits of Growth’ commissioned by The Club of Rome had issued a dire Malthusian warning that without significant curbs on the observed pattern of... Read More
Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath This is not the first time Das has urged caution on cryptos. His speech on Tuesday coming days after the PM convened a meeting on the issue last Saturday draws an important distinction between using technologies like blockchain for economic progress and for mining cryptos. Karl Marx today may well have said ‘Cryptocurrency... Read More
NCAER Professor, Sonalde Desai, who holds a joint appointment as Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland, has recently been appointed to the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences based in Washington, D.C. The Committee on Population was established by the Academy in 1983 to bring the knowledge and methods of the... Read More
Opinion: Bornali Bhandari Samarth Gupta Ajaya K Sahu and KS Urs Increased awareness and usage of government schemes may be partly responsible for the upswing in credit take among businesses in India. Growth in non-food credit slowed down to single digits since 2019–20:Q2. In the NCAER Business Expectations Survey Round 116 conducted in March 2021 we... Read More
Opinion: Barry Eichengreen & Poonam Gupta The literature points to the importance of prior financial conditions (capital inflows and real appreciation in the pre-taper period) financial market structure (the size of financial markets) and select macroeconomic variables in explaining the differential impact of the taper announcement. Specifically countries more dependent on external finance prior to Ben... Read More
Opinion: Prerna Prabhakar Despite a huge central assistance commitment of ₹1.8 lakh crore PMAY-U has not been able to achieve the desired goal of meeting the affordable housing demand and solve deep rooted issues associated with the housing market in the country. At a recent event Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave away keys to seventy five... Read More
Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath Sad truth is the only time G20 delivered on its promises was when interests of advanced economies were threatened after GFC — with urgency. Landmark historic pathbreaking — all these words and more have been used to describe the global agreement on corporate tax rates pioneered by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation... Read More