Events

NCAER organised an internal seminar titled, ‘User Beware: The promises and pitfalls of using tax data to study U.S. internal migration’ by Jack DeWaard, Scientific Director of Social and Behavioral Science Research, at The Population Council, New York, on Tuesday, 16 May 2023. Jack DeWaard is Scientific Director of Social and Behavioral Science Research at the...   Read More

NCAER hosted a seminar on “Thematic Bonds: A Tool to Finance India’s Energy Transition” by Dr. Gautam Jain, Senior Research Scholar at the Centre on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, on Monday, 15 May 2023. Dr. Jain’s presentation covered the findings and conclusions of his recent research concerning Thematic Bonds:...   Read More

NCAER organised an event in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the presentation of an Analytical Chapter titled, “Inflation and Disinflation: What Role for Fiscal Policy”, from the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor released in April 2023. Dr Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro, Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Policy and Surveillance Division of the Fiscal...   Read More

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) hosted the 17th 5-Institute Budget Seminar on Monday, February 6, 2023. As part of a tradition that has been continuing since 2007, the seminar brought together the heads of five Institutes, at the NCAER campus, that is, NCAER, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), the Indian Council for...   Read More

NCAER and the Society for Economics Research in India (SERI), in collaboration with Econometric Society and Econ Job Market, had set up the Indian Job Market for Economists (IJME) in hybrid mode. The collaboration aimed to create a platform for bringing together fresh and budding economists looking for jobs from India and abroad and Indian...   Read More

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) organised the regional launch of the AIIB Flagship Report titled, “Moonshots for the Emerging World: Building State Capacity and Mobilising the Private Sector toward Net Zero”, on 8 December 2022, at the Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Dr...   Read More

NCAER organised a hybrid seminar on Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: The Rise of Sonless Families and their Transformative Adaptations by Dr Keera Allendorf, Indiana University, on Monday, November 7, 2022. Dr Allendorf’s paper suggests that a neglected consequence of declining fertility is the likely rise of families with children of one sex—only sons or only...   Read More

The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and India International Centre (IIC) organised an insightful, expert commentary, and a lively debate on “The Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy, 2022-23” on November 5, 2022, at IIC. The NCAER Mid-Year Review (MYR) carries forward the tradition started by Dr Malcolm Adiseshiah at the IIC in...   Read More

NCAER and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organised an in-person panel discussion on the IMF’s latest Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and Pacific on 31 October 2022, at the Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Dr Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department, made a presentation on the latest assessment for the...   Read More

NCAER organised an in-person seminar on Money vs Kudos: The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in Tamil Nadu with Dr Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank. Following is an Abstract of the paper based on which Dr Rao made his presentation. Despite growing awareness of various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative...   Read More