NCAER in the News

NEW DELHI: A day after stating that "there are problems with the way we count GDP" RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today said he has never raised doubts over the GDP numbers and they are broadly correct.   "It was not anything about new GDP numbers or the way GDP is calculated. I think it's broadly correct"...   Read More

During global turmoil macroeconomic stability should not be risked Ahead of the Budget Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday cautioned against deviation from the fiscal consolidation path which he said could hurt macroeconomic stability. During the global turmoil macroeconomic stability should not be risked and both the government and the central bank...   Read More

Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday said that a growth rate of over 7% was a credible achievement given wobbly conditions in the world economy but cautioned the government against being “over ambitious” and asked it to contain its borrowings. “It is to the immense credit of the government that we have...   Read More

New Delhi (January 29 2016):  Dr Raghuram Rajan Governor of the Reserve Bank of India delivered NCAER’s 4th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on January 29 2016 to an audience of distinguished economists civil servants industry analysts and economics students.  Dr Rajan’s speech is attached in its entirety. Dr Bimal Jalan Chairman of India’s Expenditure...   Read More

Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday invoked ‘dosa economics’ to explain that pensioners are better off in the regime of falling inflation. Delivering the C D Deshmukh memorial lecture in the capital he said that a pensioner would be able to buy more number of dosas from lower interest income provided the inflation remained...   Read More

Ahead of the Budget Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan today warned against generating economic growth through additional debt saying that any deviation from the fiscal consolidation path will hurt stability of the economy. “As Brazil’s experience suggests the enormous costs of becoming an unstable country far outweigh any small growth benefits that...   Read More

"Timely" weather forecast services to 11.5 million peasants resulted in economic profit worth Rs 42000 crore during 2015 Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said today. He also made a strong pitch for expanding the web of facilities to all farmers to attain estimated profit of Rs 3.20 lakh crore. Referring to a report...   Read More

NEW DELHI (January 13 2016) - Battling extremes of drought and unseasonal rains complicated now by a warm winter the Indian farmer had a difficult year in 2015 and his prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016. This has resulted in farmer distress and may lead to a decline in food-grain output in 2016 for...   Read More

NEW DELHI: Indian farmers had a difficult year in 2015 and their prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016 a report by economic policy thinktank NCAER said.The research policy institute said according to its estimate growth in agriculture and allied sector in the second quarter of FY 201516 is likely to be 2.2 per cent...   Read More

Indian farmers had a difficult year in 2015 and their prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016 a report by economic policy thinktank NCAER said. The research policy institute said according to its estimate growth in agriculture and allied sector in the second quarter of FY 2015-16 is likely to be 2.2 per cent as...   Read More