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Sunaina Kumar

@sunaina_kumar

Senior Fellow @orfonline. Maitri Fellow @UNSW. Executive Director @T20 India. Policy nerd. Journalist.

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In this conversation at the Innovation Island Summit 2025, I explore with Hans Wijayasuriya and Deshal de Mel the lessons to be drawn from Sri Lanka's unexpected economic recovery, the economic path ahead, and why the country is betting big on digital economy.

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Time Use Survey 2024 shows Indian women suffer from acute time poverty, more than any country and spend 305 minutes a day, cooking, cleaning, and care work, leaving very little time for paid work. I write for ORF on implications for policymaking orfonline.org/expert-speak/u…

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India's premier geopolitics and geoeconomics conference the Raisina Dialogue was held in Delhi last week We were delighted to see Maitri Fellow Ambika Vishwanath Ambika Vishwanath 🇮🇳 moderating the Blue Economy: Balancing Prosperity, Sustainability & Resilience panel #Raisina2025

India's premier geopolitics and geoeconomics conference the Raisina Dialogue was held in Delhi last week
 
We were delighted to see Maitri Fellow Ambika Vishwanath <a href="/theidlethinker/">Ambika Vishwanath 🇮🇳</a> moderating the Blue Economy: Balancing Prosperity, Sustainability &amp; Resilience panel 

#Raisina2025
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At #RaisinaDialogue2025 I had the privilege to moderate ‘Ideas for BRICS Presidencies' on how expanded BRICS can address critical issues in Global South with speakers Sarah Mosoetsa,Victoria Panova, Xie Chao, Alireza Gholipour, Walter Desidera ORF youtube.com/watch?v=RcNvSQ…

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Delighted to have moderated this session at #RaisinaDialogue2025 by ORF on cooperation on food security and climate mitigation in Asia and Africa. With Jaideep Mazumdar, H.E. Prof. Sarah Anyang Agbor Chevaan Daniel, Rob Hewett, Chitkala Kalidas, Sara Roversi. youtu.be/NfxKiyNbJSA

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Great to see new initiative Pink Mobility by Rapido, cars and bikes driven by women, for women. For improving women's mobility and participation in non-traditional livelihoods. I was honoured to speak at launch event with Bornali Bhandari Shweta Aparmeya, Kaushik Joshi

Great to see new initiative Pink Mobility by <a href="/rapidobikeapp/">Rapido</a>, cars and bikes driven by women, for women. For improving women's mobility and participation in non-traditional livelihoods. I was honoured to speak at launch event with <a href="/BornaliBhandari/">Bornali Bhandari</a> Shweta Aparmeya, Kaushik Joshi
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The 2019 Time-Use Survey showed that cooking, cleaning, and childcare occupied 85% of #women’s time spent on unpaid work. The 2024 survey reinforces that gendered time #poverty remains a persistent issue in #India: Sunaina Kumar or-f.org/33202

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I write for The Indian Express on the International Year of Cooperatives, “In India’s cooperative boom, women need to be at the centre, not the margins". Share of women’s cooperatives is just 2.5 percent and more than half are dormant indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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New government guidelines mandate #women’s representation on boards of cooperative societies, aiming to address the persistent #gender imbalance in leadership roles: Sunaina Kumar or-f.org/33924

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Services like eldercare, childcare and domestic work are being integrated with gig economy and quick commerce platforms in India. What are the implications of care economy getting digitised I explore for ORF The Centre for New Economic Diplomacy orfonline.org/expert-speak/t…

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I write for the Business Today special issue on how women, seen as “shock absorbers” of climate change are responding with innovative solutions across the country. businesstoday.in/magazine/colum…

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In this paper for ORF I write on how unconditional cash transfers to women are essential to the political economy. These programmes, dismissed as “freebies” have an impact on poverty reduction  and women's empowerment.  orfonline.org/research/cash-…

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#Cashtransfers to #women have become indispensable to the #Indian political #economy, driven by the expanding influence of female #voters, adoption of #digital infrastructure for social welfare & #women’s #economic marginalisation: Sunaina Kumar or-f.org/34516

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I was honoured to be a part of Körber Stiftung’s Körber-Stiftung IP 188th Bergedorf Round Table in Berlin on "Shaping the Future Together: Germany, Europe and India in a Changing Global Order." This year’s focus on India, Germany, Europe shows new global priorities.

I was honoured to be a part of Körber Stiftung’s <a href="/KoerberIP/">Körber-Stiftung IP</a> 188th Bergedorf Round Table in Berlin on "Shaping the Future Together: Germany, Europe and India in a Changing Global Order." This year’s focus on India, Germany, Europe shows new global priorities.
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It was an absolute pleasure for me to speak with Apoorva Mittal for #ETMorningBriefPodcast by Economic Times on the care economy and women's work.  "Unseen, Unpaid, Undervalued: The Reality of Women’s Work".  podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the…