National Council of Applied Economic Research
Demographic transition, economic uncertainty and technological changes have come together to create a concoction in India that has the potential to boil over economically and socially, if not skilfully managed. One path that could steady the future of India is to both create jobs that will absorb the burgeoning population and make the population work... Read More
The objective in this paper is to define the full range of employability skills from Pre-Kindergarten to Higher Education and integrate it to the ground-level realities in the Indian context. It clearly identified that there are four types of skills –cognitive, socio-emotional, physical or psychomotor and job-specific skills. Every job role requires a different permutation... Read More
Financial inclusion, or empowerment of all citizens with access to financial resources through formal financial institutions and systems, has been advocated by many as an effective vehicle for economic development and poverty alleviation. Microfinance has emerged as a major instrument of meeting the needs of lower income households by linking them to the financial resources... 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
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
The Journal of Applied Economic Research (JAER) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal published by NCAER in New Delhi in conjunction with SAGE International. JAER publishes papers that pay special attention to the economics of emerging economies, but is open to high-quality papers from all fields of applied economics. Volume 15 No.1 Special Issue: Skilling-Critical... 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
This is part of a series of Measurement Briefs from the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre based on the findings from the Delhi Metropolitan Area Study. This particular Brief on health insurance suggests that despite rising insurance coverage in recent years, individuals are not often aware of their entitlements and do not avail of the... Read More
