The National Council of Applied Economic Research, India’s largest independent economic think tank, supports policymaking through research and data collection.
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@GitaGopinath
focusing on the outlook for global growth in the year to come.
Follow the event via 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, 1600 hrs IST
🔗
@IMFNews
@IMFLive
@IMF_India
Poonam Gupta and
@APanagariya
present a paper on "Privatization of Public Sector Banks in India: Why, How and How far?" at the
#IndiaPolicyForum
2022 today!
Privatise all public sector banks except SBI for now: Economists via
@timesofindia
@Columbia
'
@ncaer
faculty member Dr
@SonaldeDesai
has been appointed as a member of the RBI’s Expert Committee on Benchmarking of its Statistics to study quality of data & benchmarking them against global standards.
New wave of IHDS, a panel dataset of ~40000 households, places headcount poverty ratio at 8.5% ⬇️from 21.2% in 2011-12
@SonaldeDesai
highlights that out of the 8.5% poor, 3.2% were 'poor by birth' while 5.3% were due to 'accidents of life'
Link to paper:
(1/2)
@ncaer
's Dr.
@SonaldeDesai
is chosen as one of the members of the Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS) that is set up by the government to review the conduct of surveys.
Insightful infographic covering the travails of food delivery platform workers by
@the_hindu
based on the
@ncaer
report "Socio-economic impact evaluation of food delivery workers".
Read the full report here:
Do you want to be a part of a growing community of academics that want to improve India's policy dialogue through unbiased & non-partisan empirical observations? 📊
If yes, apply for the NCAER-NDIC Data Innovation Fellowship!
For more information, visit:
Do education and employment always empower women? Depends on the context, finds a comparative study of 28 LMICs conducted by
@ncaer
Prof.
@SonaldeDesai
, with
@DemographicRes
📖Read the paper here:
Introducing GenderTalk from
@ncaer
's Gender Data Hub, with the aim to bridge gap between research & practice. The 1st issue is on economics of women’s safety in public spaces. Articles from
@pallavi_econ
,
@g_borker
,
@tanikac
& conversation w/
@viswanathkv
.
Who said Macro was only for men?
@ncaer
's all-women macro team contributes to innovative research, impactful policy, & informative public discourse.
This
#InternationalWomensDay
we encourage you to join Macro & economic policy research to bring diverse perspectives to the world!
@SonaldeDesai
, Professor and Centre Director NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre and Distinguished University Professor Univ of Maryland
@bsosumd
delivered Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of Population Association of America
@PopAssocAmerica
in New Orleans
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 to
@ncaer
Professor Sonalde Desai for being elected the President of the Population Association of America for 2022. A proud moment for her team and for all of us at NCAER.
@SonaldeDesai
The Indian Economic Censuses show that an increase in tradable services employment boosts non-tradable services employment too, especially for female workers & female-owned firms. Interesting findings from a recent
@ncaer
IPF paper:
(1/3) Despite women-centric changes in policies over time, why do they have limited ownership and control over agricultural land? This paper highlights the evidence of bias against women in land rights, urging new ways to rethink policy.
🗓️Mark your calendars for the upcoming 'Data Talk' on 21 Aug 2024 at 6:30 PM IST, on "Measuring Learning in India".
Engage with eminent speakers for a deep dive into the metrics, methodologies, and implications of educational assessment.
Register here:
Profoundly saddened by the demise of Isher Ahluwalia, an integral part of the
@ncaer
family who served 21 years on NCAER’s Governing Body. Her work inspired so many of us at NCAER. An immeasurable loss to the economist profession. Our sincere condolences to Montek and the family
Introducing IPF 2022 volume comprising 5 papers presented at the 19th India Policy Forum last year. Every year authors take back comments on their papers presented at IPF and work on them over the year.
We are delighted to announce that
@ncaer
Distinguished Professor Dr Arvind Panagariya has been appointed as the Chairman of 16th Finance Commission. Many congratulations Sir!
In addition to the CEA who graciously agreed to Chair the event & co-panelists,
@nipfp_org_in
@CPR_India
@ICRIER
& IDF, who offered their expertise with us,
@ncaer
would like to thank our audience who helped make the 17th 5-Institute Budget Seminar a successful, full-house event!
@ncaer
’s National Data Innovation Centre is hosting a web-based panel discussion with eminent data journalists and leading data producers to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by both sides.
🗓️15th June 2023
🕙 6:30 pm IST
Register Here:
#hiring
The intersection of gender with macroeconomics offers dynamic possibilities for rapidly growing research at NCAER. We are seeking talented experts who can convert these possibilities into robust & viable outcomes. Apply here:
First century CE onwards, India had the largest share of global GDP for 1500 years. Will India regain one of the top spots in the global economy in the next 50 years?
@ncaer
Distinguished Prof
@APanagariya
's CD Deshmukh lecture is now available to read:
How to define and measure women’s work? Are current definitions adequate? Should subsistence farmers be included in employment statistics? How do we identify and include work through digital platforms? Some of the topics discussed at an event hosted by the Gender Hub at NCAER.
IHDS team invites papers of about 8000 words based on IHDS rounds 1 and 2 for publication in Margin . Papers will be peer reviewed for a rapid turnaround. Deadline for submission May 1, 2024. For more information contact rjain
@ncaer
.org
Last week
@ncaer
's Dialogue Room Seminar, Prof
@ridhikash07
illustrated:
1️⃣ The opportunities & challenges of using social media advertising data to estimate the digital gender gap globally👩💻
2️⃣ Two studies on how digital access & 🌐 social connectedness affect women's outcomes
📊 India has over 260 million school-aged children across 22 official languages. How do we measure learning outcomes fairly and effectively?
Join
#DataTalk
by
@ncaer
's NDIC for an in-depth discussion.
Mark your calendars for tomorrow & register now:
India has successfully achieved fertility decline. Now, it needs a fix on the population puzzle to harvest both demographic and gender dividends, write
@SonaldeDesai
@ncaer
& Purushottam Kulkarni in
@livemint
special.
@ncaer
invites papers for its flagship Conference India Policy Forum 2023. Only original, near-complete papers will be accepted. Submissions from younger scholars are particularly welcome.
@karthik_econ
@krishna_pravin
For more details, see:
@ncaer
&
@SERI_Network
are pleased to announce Indian Job Market for Economists (IJME) in collaboration with Econometric Society & Econ Job Market at NCAER Campus 21-23 Dec. 2022
@econometricsoc
@EconJobMarket
For further details, contact: jobmarket
@ncaer
.org & ijme
@seri
.network.
📢 Join us at
@ncaer
this Friday for an in-person lecture by
@ridhikash07
on the impact of digital technologies for the realization of SDGs, especially the advancement of gender equality.
To RSVP, and for more information click here:
The high-frequency indicators in the latest
@ncaer
Monthly Economic Review point to the continued resilience of the Indian economy, expansionary momentum in PMI for manufacturing and services, and robust growth in bank credit, notwithstanding the rise in inflationary pressure.
"Access to a health insurance does not necessarily mean people use them during hours of need. Educating people about the benefits is equally important".
@DebasisBarik25
@Santanu_NDIC
@SonaldeDesai
explored usage of health insurance by insured households 👉🏿
#eventupdate
Please join a webinar being organised by the
@ncaer
-NDIC with an interdisciplinary panel of researchers & experts to discuss the dynamics of internal migration in India, & the challenges of data collection on migrants.
Register here:
📺 Watch
@SonaldeDesai
,
@ncaer
Professor, in conversation with Farzana Afridi on
@Ideas4India
about challenges associated with India’s demographic dividend including
🌆 Regional imbalances
🚃 Migration
👩🔧 Women's work participation
🧓 Elderly population
The
@ncaer
IHDS team invites papers of ~8000 words based on IHDS data for rounds I & II for NCAER’s peer-reviewed journal Margin, co-published with
@Sage_Publishing
✅Deadline for submission May 1, 2024
✅ For more information, contact: rjain
@ncaer
.org
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 cites NCAER's recent Quarterly Review of the Economy. Congratulations to the Team # Sudipto Mundle
@nrbmurthy73
,
@BornaliBhandari
& others. "NCAER predicts a contraction of 12.5% this ....", it says.
#HiringAlert
#Careers
Does working with
#Data
excite you?
We at
@NCAER
are seeking a Statistical Programmer with 3+ years of experience to be based in the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC)!
Apply now!
For more information, visit:
𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽: Data-Driven Research for Land Policy in India | Deadline for receipt of Abstracts of original research papers: July 31, 2020. Know details:
GDP estimates for each year undergo six revisions over three years.
@ncaer
Director General Poonam Gupta proposes how to make the process simpler, more precise & agile, in an op-ed in
@EconomicTimes
.
"I am very close to
@ncaer
India Policy Forum, feel proud to be part of it" Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo at the 2020
#IndiaPolicyForum
happening virtually, 13-16 July 2020
#hiring
The intersection of gender with macroeconomics offers dynamic possibilities for rapidly growing research at NCAER. We are seeking talented experts who can convert these possibilities into robust & viable outcomes. Apply here:
#hiring
#postdocposition
#ApplyNow
@ncaer
invites applications for post-doctoral fellow positions across multiple research areas.
Last date for applications: 31 October 2023
Click below to apply!
An article, investigating gender differences in time-use patterns of children & assessing reallocation of time in response to household adversities, co-authored by
@ncaer
post-doc fellow
@DibyasreeG
, provides insights about gender inequality in time use.
𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲: A talk by Dr Gita Gopinath focusing on the outlook for global growth in the year to come | watch this space for the livestream link | December 15, 2021. 1600 hrs IST
@IMFNews
This year's highly anticipated 17th 5-Institute Budget Seminar is now available online!
Please click on the link below to learn what our panellists had to say about the Union Budget 2023!
@CPR_India
@ICRIER
@nipfp_org_in
@ncaer
#krishnamurthysubramanian
presented the Economic Survey at the 16th India Policy Forum
@ncaer
's New T2 Conference Center. A house full audience with two former CEAs also present
#IPF2019
.
⚕️ How can informal sector workers not poor enough to receive state-subsidized insurance premiums be protected from health shocks?
@ncaer
's latest working paper explores the two viable approaches to provide coverage to the 'missing middle'.
📜 Read more:
Latest OP-ED by
@ncaer
faculty
@SonaldeDesai
and
@pallavi_econ
shows that inadequacy of official statistics on women's labour participation adversely impacts both our perceptions & policies for women’s economic contributions. Read more in
@the_hindu
𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 —Special 6th Anniversary edition of IHDS Forum newsletter, November 2022, a monthly update of publications and data based on India Human Development Survey.
@ncaer
@ihdscorner
@SonaldeDesai
Read the newsletter at:
Socially disadvantaged groups in India respond to stigma via consumption behaviour. Using IHDS data, study reveals shifts in identity among SCs, STs, OBCs, & Muslims.
Read more on status-signaling & identity formation in the recent
@ihdscorner
newsletter
The demographic crisis of a rapidly ageing society looms before poor Asian nations. India must look beyond a bulging working-age current population to future ageing to deal with the consequences says
@ncaer
Prof
@SonaldeDesai
in The Economist article.
Child health is a critical determinant of health outcomes for the nation. This month’s IHDS newsletter focuses on two papers using IHDS data to analyse vaccination effects and gender implications on food allocation for children. Read here:
Coming up: An insightful expert commentary and a lively debate on “Pre-Budget Review of the Indian Economy”, organised by
@ncaer
, on 9 January 2024.
Stay tuned for more details…
NCAER's IHDS-3 used Negative Screening rates to monitor data quality.
High NS rates, coupled with computer-assisted audio recordings, improved results with daily monitoring & feedback.
Read more in the July IHDS Newsletter:
#BookLaunch
of 'India’s Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century' based on
@ncaer
IHDS findings
A panel on 'Data for Development', followed by book release by Sh. Suman Bery, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog. Gratitude to all participants for their valuable contributions!
Did you know that Indian fish-eating households consume around 5 kg fish/month & 60 kg annually?
Are you curious to know about the variation in the 🐠consumption behaviour of households across states? Read the recent
@ncaer
study on Indian fisheries ➡️
Congratulations to the IHDS team on completing the training of interviewers in Hyderabad at the Council for Social Development. 17 training sessions lasting 21 days with an average of 5
@ncaer
staff members at each training. How many man-days is that?
Prof
@BornaliBhandari
along with her co-authors
@SamarthEcon
& Ajaya K Sahu presented their paper “Tenure, Earnings & Productivity of Platform Delivery Workers: Evidence from India” at the 18th Annual Conference on Economic Growth & Development, ISI New Delhi on 19 Dec 2023
Interviews being held as part of the Indian Job Market for Economists, set up by
@ncaer
&
@SERI_Network
at NCAER’s iconic campus, in collaboration with Econometric Society & .
Read more about IJME here:
Released: the IHDS September 2023 newsletter featuring interesting papers on the impact of electricity access on children's learning achievements, & role of sources of finance in determining inequality and growth outcomes.
Read Here:
Happening today!
Interesting sessions on a range of policy & economic issues with prominent policy-makers, industry leaders, & academic luminaries at the
@ncaer
Annual Neemrana Conference.
High-frequency indicators in the below heatmap reveal that the domestic economy has remained resilient: PMI for manufacturing & services remained robust; credit growth was strong for personal loans, services & agriculture & allied activities.
Access here:
Analysis of the GDP, its deflator, and high frequency indicators confirm resilience of the Indian economy in Q1FY24; refuting claims of sharp deceleration by
@arvindsubraman
&
@FelmanJosh
. Read DG NCAER’s op-ed here:
India has seen rapid increase in migration, often solo-male migration. What does it mean for the left-behind women?
@ncaer
Professor Sonalde Desai was interviewed for a
@BBCIndia
news report.
If winter goes, can spring be far behind?
The
@ncaer
campus heralds the arrival of spring with a vibrant collection of flowers, smiling at us from all corners with glee!
📃 Newsletter alert!
@ihdscorner
has published its update for February— find publications based on the
@ncaer
India Human Development Survey:
You can also read
@ncaer
faculty
@DebasisBarik25
& Dinesh Tiwari's account of monitoring field inputs from IHDS-3
Heartiest Congratulations to our Director General, Dr Poonam Gupta for being inducted into the Economic Advisory Council to the PM. Another feather in the cap of
@ncaer
esteemed legacy!
@EACtoPM
via
@economictimes
Article by
@HopeYanxu
,
@SonaldeDesai
&
@DebasisBarik25
using
@ihdscorner
data, shows that older men benefit from simply living in land-owning households, but women need to control land themselves to have improved decision-making & survival probability.
A recent study on autonomy in partner choice in India by
@ncaer
Fellow
@m_banerji
finds persistence of the trend towards parent-arranged marriages with some choice.
🔎Details of the study can be found in the latest
#IHDS
newsletter!
In order to become an advanced economy, India must implement a comprehensive gender strategy that combines fiscal, administrative & regulatory measures with persuasive public messaging aimed at mindset changes, writes
@ncaer
’s DG Poonam Gupta in an op-ed.
" A reasonable bet for India's
#Growth
would be about 7% or higher in the next few years", writes Dr Poonam Gupta in her latest Op Ed, "Where will India's economic growth settle in the next 2-3 years? via
@economictimes