National Council of Applied Economic Research
NCAER invited a talk on “Trends in India’s Income Distribution” by Dr Surjit S. Bhalla on February 15, 2018. Dr Bhalla is Senior India Analyst for the Observatory Group, Chairman of Oxus Research & Investments and a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and of NCAER’s Governing Body. Dr Pronab Sen, Country Director... Read More
NCAER invited Dr Poonam Gupta, Lead Economist, the World Bank for an exclusive presentation of the 2018 India Development Update—India’s Growth Story. The India Development Update is a biannual flagship publication of the World Bank which takes stock of the Indian economy. Dr Gupta discussed the current, March 2018 issue, titled “India’s Growth Story” which describes the state of... Read More
A seminar on “New Approaches to the Financial Inclusion of Small Farmers in India: Some Experimental Results,” with Dr Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University was held at NCAER. Dr Renuka Sane, an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) was the discussant. In many parts of India, such as West Bengal,... Read More
NCAER presented its Quarterly Review of the Economy, covering the performance of the Indian Economy in the third quarter of 2017-18 and forecast for the year ahead at this seminar held at NCAER. Organised as an integral part of the Quarterly Review, this seminars brought together policymakers, industry leaders and researchers for a discussion. Key Highlights of... 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
Measuring the Wealth of Nations Sir Partha Dasgupta, one of India’s most eminent economists and globally recognized for his vast contributions to both theory and applied research in economics, delivered NCAER’s 6th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at the Nehru Memorial Library Auditorium, Teen Murti, in New Delhi, on February 9, 2018. The Honourable Union Finance Minister,... Read More
On Friday, January 19, 2018, NCAER invited Aradhna Aggarwal, Chair Professor, Indian Studies, Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School and held a lecture, “Impact of SEZs on Poverty and Human Well-being in Undivided Andhra Pradesh”. Nilotpal Goswami, Director General, CAG was the discussant for the seminar. Professor Aggarwal’s joint paper with Ari... Read More
Malcolm Childress Co-Founder and Executive Director, Land Alliance & David Spievack Lead Research Architect for PRIndex, Land Alliance NCAER is organizing first of its 2018 seminars on “PRIndex”, a global indicator of citizens’ perceptions of the security of property rights, with Malcolm Childress, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Land Alliance, Inc., and David Spievack, Lead Research... Read More
NCAER organized a seminar on “PRIndex”, a global indicator of citizens’ perceptions of the security of property rights, with Malcolm Childress, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Land Alliance, Inc., and David Spievack, Lead Research Architect for PRIndex, also at Land Alliance. PRIndex aims to fill the information gap about individual perceptions of property rights by... Read More
A brainstorming session on ‘Methodologies for Collection of Time Use Data’, organised by NCAER’s newly set up National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), was held at NCAER, New Delhi, on January 12, 2018. Apart from Shekhar Shah, Director-General, NCAER, and Sonalde Desai, Senior Fellow, NCAER and Director of NCAER’s newly set up National Data Innovation Centre... Read More
