National Council of Applied Economic Research
Opinion: C.S. Mohapatra. Policies have sought to promote participation in financial markets, but investor ignorance and negligence as well as fraudulent activities are impediments to growth. India’s financial sector has grown exponentially over the past two decades. One major contributor to this is the rising participation of private investors in financial markets coupled with digitalisation.... Read More
The NCAER-India International Centre Mid-Year Review 2019-20 had pointed out that miscellaneous inflation was the biggest contributor to overall retail inflation in the first half (H1) of 2019-20 (40.7%). Within miscellaneous items the health sub-category had the largest weight (25.1% and 16.3% in rural and urban areas respectively). Health inflation contributed 40.2% and 26.9% of... Read More
The methodology to rank different entities be it the grading of States districts or blocks has several inherent weaknesses. A minimum standard for each parameter/indicator and rank should be given only if one scores above the minimum standard In recent times it has become almost customary to rank different entities across various indicators. Of course... Read More
For long debates on air pollution have centred around PM2.5 and PM10 levels even as an invisible killer remains unnoticed Another winter has arrived and the discourse has invariably turned towards air pollution especially in the metro cities. Of course the centre of discussion is New Delhi which is considered to be a hotspot for... Read More
If ‘Make in India’ is to succeed it needs to encompass ‘Make it the Indian Way’. It need not emulate mass production technologies fuelled in Detroit by massive capital investment or in Beijing by cheap labour. We are fortunate to be in a historic moment when the manufacturing sector is about to go through a... Read More
India should adopt a three-part framework – acquiring matching and anticipating skills – for improving its skilling ecosystem an NCAER report said on Tuesday. NCAER (National Council of Applied Economic Research) is a New Delhi-based think tank. This triad of acquiring matching and anticipating skills should be integrated into almost all policies and programmes and... Read More
The government should establish a commission for 21st century skills to prepare a 15-year roadmap on transferable skills that can meet present as well as future demand from industries says a report. The report titled 'Skilling India - No Time to Lose' by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) notes that rigid labour... Read More
Using forecasting techniques Governments and industrial organisations around the world have made estimates of various social and economic parameters such as growth of future labour force population size et al. India must not lag behind For the last decade or so the Government has been strongly encouraging the Indian firms to come up with indigenous... Read More
The most popular trend in the institution of marriage in India is a mix of a love and arranged match. Its implications need to be studied in depth It is said that a successful marriage requires falling in love many times but always with the same person. This idiom can be interpreted in different ways... Read More
The survey covered 1049 units in 20 states and Delhi ranking them on their investment potential based on the six major metrics. The efforts towards improving the business climate started some years ago and deepened when the government’s flagship initiatives Make in India and Start-Up India took centre stage. The department of industrial promotion and... Read More
Minor ports in India do not act as a growth engine unlike in developed countries. Mere development of infrastructure will not make them financially viable. Strategy must focus on creating economic epicentres around minor ports India has a coastline of 7500 km and is studded with 12 major ports and close to 200 minor ports.... Read More
