Events

The Coronavirus pandemic presents India, and the rest of the world, with difficult, painful public policy choices. The Economist magazine calls it a “A grim calculus. Covid-19 presents stark choices between life, death, and the economy.” These choices will become harder as India approaches the end of his historical, 21-day national lockdown, unprecedented in the...   Read More

NCAER, released its new Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI 2020), on Thursday, 27th February, 2020. The N-LRSI assesses the extent of digitisation of land records and the quality of these land records in the States and UTs of India. Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu emerged as the top States in the N-LRSI...   Read More

NCAER hosted  a seminar by Dr Surjit S. Bhalla, Executive Director for India, Nepal and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund, based on his joint paper with Karan Bhasin and Arvind Virmani, “Poverty, Inequality and Growth in India: 2011/12-2017/18.” Dr Sudipto Mundle, Distinguished Senior Fellow at NCAER, was the discussant. The seminar was attended by members of...   Read More

India in a Changing World by David Lipton First Deputy Managing Director, The International Monetary Fund Dr David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund delivered NCAER’s 8th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture. Held in NCAER’s new, world-class, T2 Conference Centre, the Lecture was attended by a distinguished audience including economists, civil servants,...   Read More

NCAER is organizing a seminar by Professor Sonalde Desai on “A Glass Half Full: Changes in Indian Standards of Living since 2012”. Dr Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, will discuss the paper. The National Sample Survey (NSS), the flagship survey providing information on standards of living in India, has recently come under criticism as...   Read More

NCAER is organizing a seminar by Professor Sonalde Desai on “A Glass Half Full: Changes in Indian Standards of Living since 2012”. Dr Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, will discuss the paper. The National Sample Survey (NSS), the flagship survey providing information on standards of living in India, has recently come under criticism as...   Read More

NCAER hosted a book talk by Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy at Columbia University, on her latest book, Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement (January 2019; Columbia University Press). Mr Sanjoy Hazarika, Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and Mr Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Senior Editor, Hindustan Times, offered their comments after the book talk. The...   Read More

NCAER presented the 2019-20 Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy on November 16, 2019 in cooperation with the India International Centre (IIC). NCAER macro team led by NCAER Distinguished Fellow Sudipto Mundle presented its latest analysis of the economic situation and its growth forecasts to an audience of policy makers, policy commentators, and the business media. The...   Read More