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The National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), in collaboration with the Indian School of Business (ISB), organized a Data Users Conference on 27th May 2025. Dr Pallavi Choudhuri (NCAER) served as a panellist, highlighting the growing female work participation in the unincorporated sector & the value of forward-looking private sector CAPEX... Read More
The National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), in collaboration with the Indian School of Business (ISB), organized a Data Users Conference on 27th May 2025. Dr Pallavi Choudhuri (NCAER) served as a panellist, highlighting the growing female work participation in the... Read More
Professor Sonalde Desai presented paper titled “Rethinking Social Safety Nets in a Changing Society: Evidence from India Human Development Survey” at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Philadelphia in partnership with the South Asia Center & Dept of Sociology. About... Read More
Dr. Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the NCAER – National Data Innovation Centre, participated as a panelist at the National Workshop on Longitudinal Surveys in India: Lessons and Challenges, hosted by the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) and the Tamil Nadu... Read More
NITI Aayog hosted the Data Forum 2024, a collaborative initiative with the World Bank, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), and the Government of Odisha, on November 21-22, Bhubaneshwar. The engagement brought together experts to explore innovative strategies for leveraging data in development,... Read More
The Indian Express Of the four key areas that define women’s empowerment, personal efficacy, power in intra-household negotiations, societal engagement, and access to income-generating activities, we see improvements in the first three domains. In contrast, the fourth — access to employment — has stagnated. Link:... Read More
Prof Sonalde Desai explains the whys and hows of delimitation, what will happen to the number of Parliamentary seats in the country if it is implemented in 2026, and what could be done to ensure a fair outcome for all States in India. For Listening:... Read More
How do we decode the puzzling trends in women’s labour force participation in India given the substantial decline between 2004-5 and 2017-18 and a striking increase thereafter? Does a focus on overall work participation take our attention away from underlying stagnation in women’s wage work?... Read More
Carbon pricing has emerged as a key policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with carbon taxes and emissions trading as the main tools. As of June 2024, 89 national and subnational jurisdictions globally have implemented carbon pricing, covering 24% of global GHG emissions.... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai and Debasis Barik. [The Indian Express, October 25, 2024] If south India wants a larger population, it needs to focus on family-friendly policies or encourage migration from more populous states. In 1944, Stalin (Joseph not MK) established the Mother Heroine award for... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai. [The Indian Express, September 30, 2024] Instead of focussing excessively on rankings with well-recognised shortcomings, recognising achievements and refining goals consistent with national priorities will be a more fruitful approach. Developing global indices and rankings has turned into a minor industry. The... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai. [The Hindutan Times, July 3, 2024] India’s growing economy is lifting families out of poverty but often onto a precarious perch. A single disaster can push them right back. Policy, obsessed with counting the poor, ignores the question of helping ‘newly poor’... Read More
Professor Sonalde Desai delivered a lecture on “Gloom or Boom? The Puzzling Trends in Indian Women's Labor Force Participation” at 10th Institute for Human Development (IHD) Silver Jubilee Lecture Series on 17 March 2024 at 11.30 am (IST) at the Shri Krishna Institute of Public... Read More
Opinion: Sonalde Desai. The population dialogue in India has been dominated by concerns about population explosion. However, it is time for us to move these fears and learn from the experiences of other countries. In her speech, while presenting the 2024 budget, Finance Minister Nirmala... Read More
Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow at the NCAER-NDIC, was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the Niti-State Workshop series on "Leveraging State Data Ecosystems for State and District-Level Policy and Planning" hosted by the Niti Aayog and the World Bank at The Centrum in... Read More
Professor Sonalde Desai and Professor Amaresh Dubey were invited to participate in a Panel Discussion organised by Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia, on 8 November 2023. The Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), New Delhi, and Rosa... Read More
Sonalde Desai and Pallavi Choudhuri presented a paper titled “India’s Occupational Transformation: A Tale of Two Escalators” at a conference on India’s Economy in a Changing Global Landscape at Cornell University, Ithaca on October 14, 2023. India has undergone tremendous changes over the past three... Read More
Mr. Suman Bery, Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, joined us for a special event the NDIC Fellows meeting on October 17, 2023. Mr. Bery shared insights on selecting impactful research topics, presenting results for policy influence, and NITI Aayog's research priorities. His conversation and query session... Read More
Data collection for the third round of the much-awaited India Human Development Survey (IHDS-3), has started from the second week of May 2022 and is in full swing. The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic panel survey. The NDIC team conducted... Read More
Santanu Pramanik, Senior Fellow at NCAER and Deputy Director of NDIC, presented on “Statistical validation of a large-scale web survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in India” at the University of Michigan, Survey Research Centre Faculty Seminar. This was a joint work with Abhinav Motheram, Research... Read More
The NCAER National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) has launched a gender data hub, supported by a five-year grant from Co-Impact. This hub will focus on research supporting evidence-based policy design from a gender perspective. It will serve as a resource for researchers, policy-makers, civil society... Read More
NDIC team members were conspicuous by their presence at the 2022 Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference. NDIC Deputy Director Santanu Pramanik organised and chaired a session on COVID-19 vaccination. Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow, NCAER, presented her work on “Impact of COVID-19 on Household... Read More
Dr Sonalde Desai, Professor at NCAER, who holds a joint appointment at University of Maryland, USA, has recently been appointed as Distinguished University Professor (DUP) at the University. DUP status is a permanent honorific title that recognises exceptional records in research, teaching, and service. Dr... Read More