National Council of Applied Economic Research
Opinion: Jyoti Thakur. While global unemployment dips, South Asia grapples with declining labour force participation and widening job gap that put a generation at risk. The world has encountered a series of extraordinary events in the last five years that transformed everyday life and economic activity. The COVID-19 pandemic was such an event that brought... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai It is time for us to focus on empowering all women including Muslim women by ensuring their access to education employment and public safety. After two years of living behind a mask and trying to decode muffled voices and hidden expressions one begins to develop empathy for millions of women hidden behind face... Read More
Opinion: Bornali Bhandari & Ajaya K Sahu A marginal re-allocation of expenditure away from income support towards more productivity and employment enhancement schemes could have been adopted The agriculture and allied sector is going through a slow but dynamic change. Does Union Budget 2022-23 anchor the sector into its more dynamic growth path? The answer lies... Read More
Opinion: Sanjib Pohit Anupma Mehta Samarth Gupta and Soumi Roy Chowdhury The latest data on alcohol consumption in India is bound to cause a mental hangover unless the seriousness of the addiction at the national level is viewed with a clear rather than a befuddled mind. A report released in 2019 by the Ministry of Social... Read More
Opinion: Bornali Bhandari and Pawan Kadyan The Covid-19 pandemic has brought public finances into the eye of the storm. Efficient and effective Public Financial Management (PFM) in the 21st century involves the usage of Financial Management Information Systems (FMIS). The key objectives of PFM are—“to maintain a sustainable fiscal position effectively allocate resources and efficiently deliver... Read More
Opinion: Prerna Prabhakar & Divy Rangan Budget FY23 has extended support to the solar energy sector on enhancing domestic production capacity with an additional allocation of Rs 19500 crore in the form of Production-Linked Incentives (PLIs). Budget FY23 signals fast-paced movement towards India’s renewable energy target of 450 GW by 2030 60% of which is... Read More
Opinion: Poonam Gupta With the bond yields rising all around the world and credit rating agencies and foreign investors starting to discriminate across emerging markets laying down a fiscal pathway will help bolster their confidence in the strength of the Indian economy and in its key policy frameworks to yield stable policies for robust economic... Read More
Opinion: Sudipto Banerjee To put the prevailing apprehensions at rest the Modi government should hold talks with all stakeholders both on the taxability of virtual digital assets and their future legal position in India Union Budgets are known for making news. With the recent Budget announcement India joins the league of nations that have brought cryptocurrencies... Read More
Opinion: Poonam Gupta While many observers had expected it to be an 'election budget' it turns out that it has skirted populism. It provides continuity in terms of adhering to the policy pathway this government has laid out in the last few years. Budget 2022-23 is a comprehensive and transparent budget reflecting confidence in economic... Read More
Opinion: C Rangarajan & Shashanka Bhide Reliance on MSP alone won’t ensure food security or improve farm income. It must be backed by fair and competitive markets. The discussion over agricultural price policies has now been very extensive and the pressures for arriving at a key framework for such a policy has been intensified by the... Read More
Opinion: Sanjib Pohit Rather than bank on crop residue and used oilseeds the focus must shift to a few feedstock crops to produce biofuels India’s transportation sector contributes about 10 per cent of total national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Out of which road transportation contributes about 87 per cent of the total emissions. Clearly achieving net... Read More
