Lore Vandewalle

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Financial inclusion
• Gender, women and public policies
• Governance and political reservations
• Microfinance, savings and insurance
• Rural development and resource governance

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION OF EXPERTISE

South Asia

Lore Vandewalle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute, where she holds the Pictet Chair for Finance and Development. Previously, she was a part-time senior researcher at the University of Oslo. Professor Vandewalle obtained her PhD from the University of Namur in Belgium in 2011. Before joining the Graduate Institute in September 2012, she was employed as a researcher at Bocconi University, the London School of Economics and the University of Gottingen.

Lore Vandewalle is an applied micro-economist, specialised in development and political economics. Her research mainly focuses on financial inclusion and micro-enterprise development in India, Bangladesh and Uganda. She has also been working on political reservations and public good provision in India.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Increasing Trust in the Bank to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India, with Rahul Mehrotra and Vincent Somville, accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change.
• Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Microfinance in India, with Jean-Marie Baland and Rohini Somanathan, accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change.
• Somville, V. and Vandewalle, L. (2018), Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(3): 39-66.
• Vandewalle, L. (2017), The Role of Accountants in Indian Self-Help Groups: A Trade-off between Financial and Non-Financial Benefits, World Development, 93: 177-192.
• Casini, P., Vandewalle, L. and Wahhaj, Z. (2017), Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas: The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups. World Bank Economic Review, 31(1): 97-128