This NCAER report presents findings of a survey carried out in 2015 across 30 states and Union Territories (UTs) in both rural and urban areas to evaluate the effectiveness of IRDAI’s nation-wide awareness campaigns and a special initiative in Tripura. The study compares current findings on insurance awareness of insured and uninsured households for life,... Read More
Over the last decade, poverty has declined substantially in India, driven largely by the country’s more recent rapid economic growth. Sadly, however, improvements in the nutritional status, particularly of children, have not kept pace. This new research study by the National Council of Applied Economic Research, done for India’s NITI Aayog, seeks to understand why. For... Read More
This is the third and final in a series of reports that NCAER has prepared on detailed tourism satellite accounts for the states and Union Territories of India. This study was commissioned by the Ministry of Tourism in the Government of India in 2013 to compile Regional Tourism Satellite Account for all states and UTs... Read More
NCAER’s Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy (MYR) presents the most comprehensive, independent assessment of the Indian economy. The 2015–16 Review has been published for the fifth year running in a longstanding partnership with the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. The MYR 2015 includes two special papers, also included in this publication.
The Report states that the current global agricultural outlook scenario characterized by abundant supplies of cereals and soybean meal, tightening of vegetable oil supplies and an overall increase in pulse production in most major exporting countries present a mixed fortune for India, which used to be a major exporter of wheat, maize, sugar, and soybean... Read More
A study was undertaken to assess the impact of different rice varieties and packages of practice developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and India’s State Agricultural Universities. This NCAER study first examines the variation in rice production in India across seasons, areas and ecosystems. It then examines the role played by public... Read More
The report provides a comparison of the latest medium-term projections for wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and sugar made by five international institutions (OECD/FAO, USDA, FAPRI, and IGC) on the supply and demand conditions globally and for India. A standalone model for Indian agricultural markets, using the OECD/FAO developed COSIMO model and an... Read More
The main objectives of this report are to first calculate its GSDP for the five years starting from 2008–09 to 2012–13 as mandated by the UT Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The second objective is to use the calculated GSDP to identify the opportunities and challenges and the third objective is to recommend a... Read More
This study is targeted at bringing the focus of high-level policy attention on the urgent need to revamp India’s FDI statistical system for an accurate view of Foreign Direct Investment inflows a / outflows and their impact. The study will achieve the following objectives: Strengthening FDI data frameworks in adherence to international conventions. Streamlining structural... Read More
NCAER computed the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) Daman and Diu for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13. The UT is dominated by registered manufacturing. Its per capita income is approximately five times that of India. However, the growth of the economy had faltered during the period of the study, with slowing growth in manufacturing. Share... Read More