NCAER organised a conversation with Professor Hari K. Nagarajan, RBI Chair Professor at IRMA, about the findings of his joint work with Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and Anirudh Tagat on whether democratisation and devolution of responsibilities to local governments in India improves access to health care, health status, and individual incomes. Using nationally representative household panel data... Read More
A Conversation with Ms Pamela Mar, Fellow at the Fung Global Institute at HK University, Hong Kong In her engaging conversation, Pamela Mar highlighted the significance of technological advancement in meeting the changing needs of consumers and the demands generated by the rise of e-commerce. She argued that the growth of automation technologies, robotics, and... Read More
This workshop held in New Delhi is part of NCAER Study on Matching Business Reforms in India’s States to the ‘Ease of Doing Business’, funded by prosperity fund, British High Commission, BHC. The opening address welcoming delegates and providing an overview of the project was delivered by Dr Shekhar Shah, Director General NCAER. An introduction... Read More
NCAER’s latest forecasts show a GDP growth rate of 6.9 per cent for 2016–17 and 7.3 per cent for 2017–18. These forecasts are based on NCAER’s annual GDP model on annual model for GDP market prices at constant (2011–12) prices forecasts. The Gross Value Added (GVA) at Basic Prices at constant (2011–12) prices is predicted... Read More
The 5-Institute Budget Seminar 2017-18 brought together the heads of the five institutes —CPR, ICRIER, IDF, NCAER, and NIPFP to share a reflective view of the Union Budget and its longer-term implications for the Indian economy under the leadership of the NDA Government, now well into its second half. Expectations from the fourth budget of... Read More
Dr Vijay Kelkar, one of India’s most prominent economic policymakers and thinkers with over four decades of public service in and outside the government, delivered NCAER’s 5th C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at the Nehru Memorial Library Auditorium, Teen Murti Bhavan, in New Delhi, on January 27, 2017. The distinguished audience included eminent economists, civil servants,... Read More
India and the Global Economy Post-Brexit by Dr Arvind Subramanian Dr Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India delivered NCAER’s 2016 India Policy Forum Lecture on July 12, 2016 to an audience of distinguished economists, civil servants, industry analysts, media, and students at the India International Centre in New Delhi. Dr Subramanian spoke on India and the... Read More
Investor-friendly India: How are India's States Faring? A NCAER-PRI Dialogue NCAER organized an NCAER-PRI video-dialogue, the third in the series of an on-going dialogue with PRI. The theme of the dialogue was India’s investment climate and focused particularly on India’s states. PRI, the Policy Research Institute in Japan, is affiliated with the Japanese Ministry of Finance. The... Read More
The inadequate availability of high-quality monetary and financial data has long been associated with misinformed policy decisions. Conventional, simple-sum, money-supply measures are not adjusted to account for differences in the degree to which different assets actually serve as money. Divisia measures, named after the early 20th century French economist, Francois Divisia, make proper adjustments based... Read More
NCAER in collaboration with the DBT Mission, organized a one day Northeast Regional Workshop on Direct Benefit Transfer in Imphal, Manipur. Apart from NCAER and the DBT Mission, the other stakeholders that participated in the workshop included the Unique Identification Authority of India, National Payments Corporation of India, Ministry of Finance, Reserve Bank of India,... Read More