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Lore Vandewalle

KU Leuven
lore.vandewalle@kuleuven.be

Lore Vandewalle is a Professor of Economics at KU Leuven. She is also a part-time professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research mainly focuses on financial inclusion, micro-enterprise development and gender in India, Bangladesh and Uganda. She has also worked on political reservations and public good provision in India. 

Posts by Lore Vandewalle

Why political competition matters when inequality is high

In a high-inequality setting, local politicians with secure positions may favour the rich by diverting resources towards them, at the cost of the poor. To test this hypothesis, this article analyses d...

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Political reservations for women and policy influence of low-castes in India

Many policies are designed along a particular identity dimension, such as gender or ethnicity. However, such policies overlook the fact that individuals are associated with several identity dimensions...

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Socially disadvantaged groups and microfinance in India

The benefits of microfinance are in the details. This column takes a look at lending by commercial banks in India to self-help groups – smaller, informal community-based groups – as a new and succ...

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Can bank account-based payments boost savings?

?The Finance Ministry plans to focus on mobilising savings in the next phase of PMJDY, the financial inclusion scheme. This column presents results from an experiment in Chhattisgarh, which tests whe...

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