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Vaishnavi Surendra

University of California, Berkeley
v.surendra@berkeley.edu

Vaishnavi Surendra is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She received her Ph.D. from the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in 2020. Her research interests span topics in household finance, labour economics, and the economics of gender.

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Are moneylenders financial intermediaries?

A majority of borrowing in rural households in developing countries is from informal lenders. This article examines the relationship between these informal lenders and banks in rural India, from the e...

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