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
NCAER hosted Sriram Raghavan, Vice President, IBM Research & Chief Technology Officer, IBM India/South Asia for a seminar on “Blockchain: An Emerging Platform for Trusted Transactions & Reduced Risk”. Going by popular media reports, blockchain is often a technology associated exclusively with the most recent cryptocurrency security breach or the volatility of the price of... Read More
Challenges to India from Global Economic Upheavals by Mr Martin Wolf, CBE Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, London Mr Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London, and among the world’s most influential financial journalists, delivered NCAER’s 7th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at the NCAER India Centre, New Delhi,... Read More
NCAER invited Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior Fellow, Bruegel, for a seminar on “The Challenges of International Collective Action in a Changed Environment” on January 8, 2019. Harsha Vardhana Singh, Chairman, IKDHVAJ Advisers, and former Deputy Director-General at WTO, was the discussant at the seminar, which was organised in partnership with GDN, the Global Development Network. In his presentation,... Read More
NCAER presented its 2018-19 Mid-Year Review of Indian economy at an event held at the India International Centre, IIC. This event goes back to a long-standing partnership with IIC, which is attended by policymakers, industry leaders and researchers every year. The highlights of this report are as follows: NCAER forecasts Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of... Read More