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Business confidence recovers from lows of 2019-20 and pandemic yrs: NCAER

Business confidence has recovered from the lows of the pre-pandemic (201920) and the following two pandemic years, though sentiments continued to soften sequentially in the three quarters of the current fiscal, economic think-tank NCAER said. The NCAER-NSE Business Confidence Index (BCI) was higher at 126.6 in the third quarter of 202223 than the year-ago's level of 124.4. "However, sentiments continued to soften sequentially in the first, second and third quarters of 202223," it said. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) further said sentiments relating to macro conditions remained relatively buoyant in the third quarter of 202223 as compared to the second. The share of positive responses increased for the component overall economic conditions will improve in the next six months' and remained unchanged for the component present investment climate is positive'. In contrast, sentiments pertaining to firms' own conditions softened between the two quarters for th

External sector could face some anxious moments, says CEA Nageswaran

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Global shocks are best times for radical reforms: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

He added that India needs to refocus on other areas, pointing to the need to expand the money spent on green technology

Business confidence falls for second straight quarter, says NCAER survey

Earlier, it was at 142.9 in the fourth quarter of 2021-22. It was 117.4 in the corresponding quarter last year

Large corporates request RBI for customers' UPI data, says Dy Guv Sankar

Large corporates, including fintech, have requested the RBI on how they could access the data from UPI

Why Digital Rupee is a distraction and India ought to go slow on it

A digital currency is more of a fashionable trend and trends are for social media influencers, not governments

The slowdown in 2019-20 was neither anomalous, nor inexplicable

It is important to remember that growth had been slowing for five consecutive quarters before 2019-20

Business confidence buoyant in Q3 FY22, says economic think-tank NCAER

The business confidence has remained buoyant in the third quarter of the current financial year, said economic think-tank NCAER.

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Biz sentiment hit two-year high in Q2 as Covid second wave eased off: NCAER

Sentiments improved sequentially in Q2FY22 with regard to production, domestic sales, exports, new orders, imports of raw materials, and pre-tax profits

India expected to grow 10% during current fiscal: NCAER Director General

The economy is expected to grow around 10% during the current financial year on the likelihood of fewer Covid-linked supply disruptions and buoyancy in the global economy, said NCAER's Poonam Gupta

No FTA with nations you have armed conflict with: Fin secy on RCEP decision

Somanathan said that a dose of carefully calibrated tariff protection for select sectors showing potential may be desirable

Poonam Gupta to head NCAER as its first woman director general

Succeeds Shekhar Shah who has led NCAER since 2011 and will complete his second five year term in early May

MP, West Bengal lead India's land record digitisation drive: NCAER study

Ladakh, J&K, Sikkim and a few other North-Eastern states have a long way forward

Demand-supply gap in NPS; needs to be more flexible for subscribers: NCAER

Even as NPS has a robust architecture, there is a gap between demand and supply side in the Indian pensions market, NCAER said in a release on Thursday, citing the key takeaways from the discussion

NCAER's business confidence index rises 41.1% in September quarter

Indicating signs of improvement, think-tank NCAER on Monday said its Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose 41.1 per cent in the July-September 2020 period

Remembering Subir Gokarn: The big-frame economist who loved the little things

While his ability to connect the dots is well-known, CRISIL Chief Economist Dharmakirti Joshi recounts Gokarn's love for food and travel, besides other lesser known facets of the man

NCAER sees GDP shrinking by 12.6% in FY21, falling in three remaining qtrs

All the remaining three quarters of 2020-21 were projected to witness a fall in the gross domestic product (GDP), NCAER said

Business Confidence Index falls 40% in June quarter: NCAER survey

It fell 62 per cent in the June 2020 quarter on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, according to a survey by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)

Over a quarter of homes in UP, Odisha had zero income under lockdown: NCAER

There was change in occupation profile during lockdown; the proportion of salaried persons fell sharply in UP