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Bornali Bhandari is a Fellow at NCAER with a background in international economics and macroeconomics, specifically focussing on the impact of globalisation on development. Currently she is working on analysing the shortcomings of the Indian FDI statistical system and calculating the GSDP of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Her wider research interests include analysis of states, infrastructure, particularly the roads and ICT sectors, G-20 issues like climate change, finance and reserve currency and trade-related issues. She is also co-ordinating NCAER’s macro publications – the Quarterly Review of the Economy, Quarterly Business Expectations Survey, and Macrotrack.
Posts by Bornali Bhandari
Business sentiments and labour markets
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns have had a significant adverse impact on jobs and livelihoods. Using 2006-2021 data from a survey on business sentiments, this article examines fluctuati...
- Bornali Bhandari Samarth Gupta Ajaya Kumar Sahu K Subbaraje Urs
- 04 May, 2021
- Articles
Tripura’s bamboo sector: Potential and challenges
About a third of the total area of Tripura is covered by bamboo, and bamboo has emerged as a key thrust area for the state’s industrial development. Based on a field visit that was undertaken to stu...
- Bornali Bhandari
- 13 April, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Forecasting growth in times of transition
As per official data released on 31 August 2017, the Indian economy grew at 5.6% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year – in congruence with forecasts of National Council of Applied Economi...
- Bornali Bhandari
- 08 November, 2017
- Perspectives
Do firms in India perceive themselves to be e-ready?
Government of India’s ‘Digital India’ programme seeks to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy. This column presents region-wise findings of a perceptio...
- Bornali Bhandari Ajaya Kumar Sahu
- 24 January, 2017
- Perspectives
India's macroeconomic outlook: Is uncertainty the new paradigm?
The provisional growth estimate for India for 2014-15 is 7.3%, higher than 6.9% growth in 2013-14. In this article, Bornali Bhandari – a Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research ...
- Bornali Bhandari
- 16 July, 2015
- Perspectives