Events

RFP launch date: July 22, 2019 The last date for submission of proposals has lapsed Background: The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is one of India's oldest and largest independent, non-profit, economic and social research institutes. It undertakes grant-funded research and commissioned studies for governments and industry, and is one of the few...   Read More

It is with deep sadness that many of Subir Gokarn’s friends and former colleagues heard about his tragic passing away in Washington DC on July 30th after a brief illness: Dr Gokarn was just 59. Since November 2015, Subir Gokarn had been the IMF Executive Director for India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. More than...   Read More

The last date for submission of proposals has lapsed Background  The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is one of India's oldest and largest independent, non-profit, economic and social research institute. It does grant-funded research, and commissioned studies for governments and industry, and is one of the few think tanks globally that also collect...   Read More

NCAER presented its Quarterly Review of the Economy, covering the performance of the Indian Economy in the first quarter of 2019-20 and forecast for the year ahead at this seminar held at NCAER. Organized as an integral part of the Quarterly Review, this seminar brought together policymakers, industry leaders and researchers for a discussion.  Bornali Bhandari and Sudipto...   Read More

This joint seminar brought together the Executive Directors of five institutions, namely, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India Development Foundation (IDF), National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) to present their more reflective assessment of the...   Read More

  NCAER held the 16th India Policy Forum at the NCAER India Centre in New Delhi on July 8-10, 2019. The keynote speech on the morning of July 9th was delivered by Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Using data from the Economic Survey 2019 released by the Government of India recently, Dr Subramanian provided...   Read More

NCAER hosted a seminar on “Whither US federal climate policy in the age of Trump, Pelosi, and defiant US states?” with Nathaniel Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund. Shreekant Gupta, Professor, Delhi School of Economics, and Coordinating Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (5th Assessment report), was the discussant . The seminar was attended by NCAER research...   Read More

NCAER signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in New Delhi today to use new data technologies, knowledge generation and knowledge sharing, and capacity building in the field of official statistics. The MoU was signed by Dr Anil Kumar Sharma, NCAER Secretary and Operations Director and Shri Ajay Kumar Mehta,...   Read More

NCAER organised a seminar on “China Family Panel Studies and Income Inequality in China” with Yu Xie, Princeton University. The seminar was attended by NCAER Research team and invited guests from other institutions in New Delhi. The China Family Panel Studies is a nearly nationwide, comprehensive, longitudinal social survey that is intended to serve research...   Read More

NCAER released a new book covering critical issues pertaining to land prices and other challenges facing the land sector in urban India at an event held in its new Conference Centre. These issues assume added significance in view of the fact that India is one of the most land-scarce countries in the world. This scarcity...   Read More