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
Opinion: Poonam Gupta. India must adopt a holistic gender strategy consisting of fiscal, administrative, and regulatory measures, combined with public messaging and mindset changes. Globally, the average workforce participation is 50 per cent for women and 80 per cent for men. In India, the corresponding ratio is similar for men, but strikingly lower for women,... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai. Gender ideologies often prompt couples to assign women to take over extra family duties while men remain free to concentrate on their careers. When women were missing from the labour force, that was because they were home caring for children; when they were paid less than men, that was because they had... Read More
Opinion: Anupma Mehta. As we marked the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, it may be apt to ruminate about two other festivals soon to be widely celebrated across India—Durga Puja, when obeisance is paid to Maa Durga, the goddess of power and strength, and Diwali, when Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped as... Read More
Opinion: Poonam Gupta and S Priyadarshini. The real growth rate of the Indian economy in the April-June quarter of 2023-24 (Q1, FY24), according to the latest data released by the Central Statistical Office (CSO), stood at 7.8 per cent. Market economists embraced this data as reflective of their own projections, and in line with their... Read More
Govindraj Ethiraj, financial journalist talks to Bornali Bhandari, Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research. [04:21] Why are gig workers, including food delivery staff, graduate degree holders? What does this say about their mobility and the relative power of the degree? The NCAER a few weeks ago released a survey titled Socio Economic... Read More
Nivedita V talks to Bornali Bhandari, Professor at NCAER about the gig economy, highlighting differences between part-time and full-time workers, as well as workers in different cities. In this State of the Economy podcast, Nivedita discusses the world of gig workers and the challenges they face in obtaining social security. Joined by Professor Bornali Bhandari... Read More
Opinion: Anupma Mehta. The lasting legacy of the G20 summit would be its attempt to mainstream a gender-responsive perspective. The just concluded G20 summit in India and its reiteration of gender empowerment through the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides an apposite backdrop for examining the pace and progress of this empowerment... Read More
Opinion: Somya Mathur and Badri Narayanan However, WTO’s tariff moratorium on digital transmission must continue for the countries of the Global South, such as India, to become major players. The crucial role of digital technologies was brought out during the Covid period. So to tap their full potential is one of G20’s primary agendas. Micro,... Read More
Opinion: Poonam Gupta. In the recent Jackson Hole Conference, the Central Bank governors of the US, Europe, and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to inflation targets of 2 percent. They resolved to continue raising the policy rates and keeping them “higher for longer”, in pursuit of this target. The subtext of their speeches contained important nuances.... Read More
