Prof Sumit Mishra publishes impactful research paper on caste-based residential segregation

IFMR GSB faculty member — Sumit Mishra, Assistant Professor, Economics and Data Science has published an impactful research paper. His paper “Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India” co-authored with Naveen Bharathi (Harvard University), Deepak Malghan (IIM – Bangalore), and Andaleeb Rahman (Cornell University) was published as a forthcoming article on World Development — an A journal as per the ABDC list and listed amongst the top-five development econ journals. The paper presents the first-ever large-scale snapshot of urban residential segregation in India at the neighbourhood-scale. The analysis from 147 largest cities in contemporary India shows how caste-based residential segregation is independent of city size (with the sample including all cities in India, with at least 0.3 million residents in 2011).

Dr Shobha Das panellist at CII Summit

Dr Shobha Das, Dean – IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB), Krea University, was part of a grand panel of eminent speakers, academics, and celebrated entrepreneurs at the TNTDPC Summit hosted by CII (the Confederation of Indian Industry). Dr Das shared her reflections on the future of management education, elaborating on the opportunities from new-age …