Kumar, Avinash

This report investigates how inequality, climate change, and digital exclusion intersect to shape Asia’s future. Drawing on data from across the region, the report reveals that how the richest 1% and 10% continue to accumulate wealth and power while billions remain trapped in poverty and vulnerability. It features how climate disasters, gender disparities, and unequal […]

CLOSETHEGAP is Oxfam India’s innovative new campaign for equality. It challenges manifestations of inequality in all areas, such as property rights, health, education, the right tofood and nutrition, and budgetary allocations for marginalised groups. The campaign began by focusing on gender inequality, asking the general public the ways in which they would close the gap between men […]

Despite its booming economy and burgeoning middle classes, India is a country where hundreds of millions remain in severe poverty. In 2004 a new government was elected largely due to its promise to improve the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people by creating health centres, schools, and jobs. Also in 2004, the World […]