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Sunil Mitra Kumar
King’s College London
Sunil Mitra Kumar is a lecturer in economics at the King’s India Institute and Department of International Development, King’s College London
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Caste and credit: Not such a woeful tale?
Caste is an enduring predictor of economic status in India and caste-based discrimination continues to pervade several spheres of life. What about rural lending? This column suggests that most caste-wise differences in access to loans reflect differences in application rates and only a smaller part are due to discrimination: backward caste-members are a lot less likely to apply for loans than the advantaged groups.
11 September 2017
Money and Finance
Money & Finance
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