National Council of Applied Economic Research
The NCAER Gas Price Pooling Study captures the macroeconomic impact of the increased power generation and its multiplier effects as a result of greater availability of gas, as well as the total costs of such a policy in the form of subsidies and revenue losses to other sectors. The net benefits are analysed under different... Read More
Will limiting rural employment guarantees to the 200 poorest districts improve targeting? Probably not. Results from the India Human Development Survey suggest that targeting districts is likely to be ineffective—and that it may be better to target households.
In spite of the rising academic attention to path-dependency in social history, when it comes to the history of economic thinking, we seem to be stuck in a Markovian nirvana where debates of the past are forgotten under the onslaught of new ideas. Nowhere is this more evident than in the discourse on demographic dividend... Read More
This paper by NCAER project team led by Dr Rajesh Chadha, Senior Research Counsellor, been produced under the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Programme on Competitiveness and Development. The objective of this study is to analyse the likely impacts of the trade preference scheme on India and the AFLDCs. The study is... Read More
This is the first 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 of India... Read More
NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research, is privileged to present the 2013-14 Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy for the third successive year in partnership with the India International Centre. The Mid-Year Review highlights the policy flip-flops and paralysis that plagued policymaking in New Delhi in the run up to... Read More
Cable Services (CS) has characteristics of excludable public goods, which means they have externalities, but with a degree of excludability to those who are not willing to pay its price. The paper analyses choices for CS using household data from small towns of India. The analysis is structured to go beyond affordability issues. The findings... Read More
The IPFs 10th Anniversary Volume, 2013-14, comprises papers and highlights of the discussion at the India Policy Forum (IPF) held in New Delhi on July 16–17, 2013. The IPF, a joint venture of NCAER and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. explores India’s rapidly evolving economic transition and the underlying policy frameworks and reforms using... Read More
The nature of monsoon in terms of amount of rainfall received during the months of June-September and distribution of rainfall across regions of the country and over the four month period remains the most important determinant of annual agricultural harvest in the country. This year, there has been a significant deficiency in rainfall received in... Read More
