National Council of Applied Economic Research
The NCAER Land Record & Services Index, N-LRSI 2020-21 is the second edition of the Index, based on NCAER's Land Policy Initiative, which has been supported by Omidyar Network India, through its Property Rights Research Consortium initiative which aims to enable evidence-based solutions for securing land, housing and property rights in India. It provides a... Read More
The NCAER Land Record & Services Index, N-LRSI 2020-21 is the second edition of the Index, based on NCAER's Land Policy Initiative, which has been supported by Omidyar Network India, through its Property Rights Research Consortium initiative which aims to enable evidence-based solutions for securing land, housing and property rights in India. It provides a... Read More
This approach paper was written on behalf of Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office. It provides a novel methodological framework to evaluate prioritization of infrastructure projects. Given scarce resources available for investments, which infrastructure project should get prioritized first, remains a key question for policymakers. In this report, we develop an idea to compute a novel index... Read More
This study was conducted by the NCAER team during 2020-21 to estimate the impact of the proposed refinery at Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. This study reports on the extensive estimation of the benefits of the Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited (RRPCL) investment in terms of overall output, incomes, employment and tax contributions during both the... Read More
NCAER’s Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy (MYR) presents the most comprehensive, independent assessment of the Indian economy. The 2020-21 Review has been published in a longstanding partnership with the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the global economy and India is no exception.... Read More
Since its inception in December 2017, the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre has been promoting methodological research in methods of data collection to capture better quality data and strengthen the data ecosystem in India. As part of NDIC’s mandate to build a community of innovators in the data sphere, one of its activities was to... Read More
This study was undertaken by NCAER on request of the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) to evaluate the key industry characteristics, its competitiveness, and its employment potential. The study provides a comprehensive map of G&J clusters in each industry segment based on the number of units and workers. The NCAER team surveyed a... Read More
Since its inception in December 2017, the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre has been promoting methodological research in data collection for strengthening India’s data ecosystem. As part of NDIC’s mandate to build a community of innovators in the data sphere, student-faculty paired teams are awarded small grants every year to develop and test innovative data... Read More
The Government of India launched the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme in January 2015. The key objectives of the scheme are to: (i) prevent gender-biased sex-selective elimination; (ii) ensure the survival and protection of the girl child; and (iii) promote education and participation of the girl child. The Ministry of Women and Child Development... Read More
This project jointly conducted by NCAER and the Tata Centre for Development at UChicago, studies the health and livelihood implications of a particular riverine community, that is, fisher folk, along selected polluted stretches of the Ganga river. The study conducted in two phases entails conduction of water experiments using censors, along with in-person interviews and... Read More
