Dr Suresh Govindapuram, Assistant Professor of Economics, IFMR GSB, Krea University virtually presented a paper titled Cultural Distance and Discrimination in Access to Financial Services: A Case Study for Bank Loans in Rural India at the European Regional Science Association (ESRA 2024) Congress: Regional Science Dialogues for Peace and Sustainable Development on 26 August, 2024 under the theme Culture Based Development: Cultural Narratives for Polarization versus Peace.
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