National Council of Applied Economic Research
This report highlights the vital role of the Indian Railways in the network mode of transportation, given that it will cater to an estimated 2036 billion passenger kilometres by 2020. To bridge the survey gap of detailed profiling (95 per cent of railway passengers travel in non- reserved category), a household survey of two distinct... Read More
The Eighth India Policy Forum (IPF) conference, organised jointly with the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. was held in New Delhi during July 12-13, 2011. Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning Commission, delivered the eighth annual IPF Lecture titled " The challenges for India on the 12th Five year plan 2012-17". A joint publication... Read More
The main objective of the study is to prepare a comprehensive documentation of taxes and user charges on transport sectors in India. The existing complex tax regime adds to the inefficient delivery of transport services which also suffer from various other policy distortions. The second key objective of this study is to evaluate gains to... Read More
The Quarterly Agricultural Outlook provides an overview of agricultural trends both globally and at the national level. Agriculture continues to be critical to India’s economy given its role in meeting the food and fibre needs of over a billion people and providing livelihoods to millions of households in rural areas. India is a major producer... Read More
Agriculture continues to be critical to India’s economy given its role in meeting the needs of food and fibre for over a billion people and providing livelihoods to millions of households in the rural areas.India is a major producer and consumer of several basic food commodities. The challenge is to meet the diversified and increased... Read More
The telecommunications sector plays an increasingly important role in the Indian economy. It contributes to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), generates revenue for the government and creates employment. The report presents the evolution of the telecommunications sector in India in the decade between 2001 and 2011. The total number of telephone subscribers has grown at a... Read More
This paper models the perverse impact of increased devolution of funds from higher to lower level governments (village councils or Panchayats) on tax revenues collected This paper models the perverse impact of increased devolution of funds from higher to lower level governments (village councils or Panchayats) on tax revenues collected by the latter. We show... Read More
In this paper we show that investments to improve the supply and management of water reduce the time spent in fetching water by both men and women, which in turn will lead to a reallocation of the time saved to productive activities, and result in increased incomes. Using the national ARIS/REDS panel data of the... Read More
Has the devolution of responsibilities and finances to local governments in India produced positive impacts on health status and incomes of men and women? Using a national data set with details on health, health seeking behavior and local governance, we estimate a system of simultaneous equations to analyze the incidence of illness via a health... Read More
A significant concern in economies like India is the inability of large sections of its population to adequately access services such as water and education. This problem is particularly magnified in the rural areas where problems of low levels of literacy, and inadequate access to drinking water have lead to a large number of pathologies... Read More
