National Council of Applied Economic Research
Opinion: Isha Dayal and Sanjib Pohit. Global action. A body, akin to WTO, which can... Read More
Opinion: Udaibir Das. In her 2009 book Dead Aid, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo probes why... Read More
Opinion: Palash Baruah and DL Wankhar. Work-life. There is no consensus on the optimum... Read More
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the Society for Economics Research in India (SERI), in collaboration with Econometric Society (ES) and EconJobMarket.org (EJM), set up the Indian Job Market for Economists (IJME) in 2022. The collaboration has created a hybrid centralised platform... Read More
The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) and NCAER, under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, are jointly organising an in-person workshop on ‘‘Investor Education and Protection Policy in India: Claiming the Unclaimed’’, on 12 December 2023, to be... Read More
NCAER organised an in-person event on Access to Clean Water and the Role of Information and Transaction Costs on 1 December 2023, as part of its Dialogue Room Seminar Series. Details of the paper Abstract and the panellists at the seminar are given below Abstract... Read More
Dr C.S. Mohapatra, the IEPF Chair Professor at NCAER, was invited to participate in an interactive session on “National Strategy for Financial Education (NSFE): Where are we today”, with the officials of the National Centre for Financial Education (NCFE) on 22 November 2023, at NCFE,... Read More
NCAER’s roots lie in Prime Minister Nehru’s early vision of a newly-independent India needing independent institutions as sounding boards for the government and the private sector. Remarkably for its time, NCAER was started in 1956 as a public-private partnership, both catering to and funded by the government and private industry. NCAER’s first Governing Body included the entire Cabinet of economic Ministers and the leading lights of the private sector, including names like C. D. Deshmukh, J.R.D. Tata, John Mathai, and Asoka Mehta. The Ford Foundation provided strong financial support in the early years, combined with support from the Finance Ministry and Tata Sons.
On October 31, 1959, Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for the current iconic campus designed by Harvard-trained architect, A. P. Kanvinde. In doing so, he laid the foundation for a unique research institution that has stood the test of time in its service to the nation. More than five decades later on July 27, 2013, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the new NCAER India.
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