NCAER in the News

Opinion: Poonam Gupta and S Priyadarshini. The real growth rate of the Indian economy in the April-June quarter of 2023-24 (Q1, FY24), according to the latest data released by the Central Statistical Office (CSO), stood at 7.8 per cent. Market economists embraced this data as reflective of their own projections, and in line with their...   Read More

Highlights

  • Nutritional security: Fishery demand in India could have been better managed

    Opinion: Saurabh Bandyopadhyay, Nijara Deka, Palash Baruah, Laxmi Joshi, and Falak Naz. India is achieving significant strength in the allied space of agriculture. Fishery, dairy, and livestock are the areas of livelihood support for the millions. Moreover, India’s nutritional and food securities are deeply rooted in this sector. Among the allied activities of agriculture, the...   Read More

  • China makes sweeping reform to financial sector regulation

    Opinion: Udaibir Das. Dramatic changes should not undermine globally accepted standards. While the world is preoccupied with the stability of the western banking system, China has been busy overhauling its financial regulatory architecture. The dramatic changes are China’s fourth major reform in the past two decades, bringing the financial regulatory system under the tight, centralised...   Read More

  • Quality data on farmers’ use of machinery lacking

    Opinion: Bornali Bhandari, Laxmi Joshi, Ajaya K Sahu and Shish Pal Bansal. Though the government has been running a Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation since 2014, a comprehensive database of farmers’ usage of farm machinery isn’t available. Ownership of power farm equipment in India is low. The recently released NCAER White Paper on ‘Making India a...   Read More

  • The challenge of gender access to clean water

    Opinion: Anupma Mehta and Sanjib Pohit. There is a need for community-based approaches for resolving the water crisis and liberating women from the task of fetching it India accounts for 18 per cent of the world's population, but holds only 4 per cent of its water resources, making it one of the most water-deficient regions...   Read More

  • Measuring urban employment/unemployment across city tiers

    Opinion: Ajaya K Sahu and Bornali Bhandari. As India increasingly urbanises, it has become important to measure its economic parameters, not only at the aggregate level but also at the disaggregated level. The literature review suggests that there are differences across city tiers. However, we find that the current statistics simply do not capture the...   Read More

  • Farmers deserve better tools

    Opinion: Bornali Bhandari and Laxmi Joshi.  Small farmers lack access to tools, as the tractor-dominated farm machinery sector suffers from demand, supply constraints India is simply not producing the sort of farm machinery that our small and marginal farmers want or can readily use at a price which appeals to them. Farm machinery comprises equipment...   Read More

  • Different faces of the Indian women’s movement

    Opinion: Sonalde Desai. The key is to not put all eggs in the single basket of state-led programmes and to ensure that other spaces for women’s activism are preserved. The vibrancy of the Indian women’s movement is acknowledged worldwide. However, its gradual transformation has received much less attention. Over the years, its thrust has moved...   Read More

  • The inequities of gender bias in India

    Opinion: Anupma Mehta. Women need healthcare the most but often they are the ones who do not have adequate access to it. As we celebrate another International Women’s Day, it is time to yet again take stock of the progress in gender equity across various parameters of human development. And while there may be some...   Read More

  • The debt problem of LICs: Plenty of blame to go around

    Opinion: Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta  There is plenty of blame to go around for the current debt situation. Debtor countries that borrowed unsustainably; large creditor countries, especially China, and private creditors, who lent recklessly on opaque and unfair terms; and multilateral organisations that failed to monitor and warn of the unsustainable amount of debts...   Read More

  • Tram scores over e-bus

    Opinion: Sanjib Pohit Trams are more energy-efficient and economical. After the push for carbon neutral transport system, all metros in India are now moving towards electric-bus. Recently, Mumbai introduced double-decker e-bus like the one that plies in London. The impression one gets is that this is the preferred mode for an urban transport system. However,...   Read More