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Hema Swaminathan’s research focuses on a broad range of issues, including, gendered inequality in income and wealth distributions, women’s labour force participation, and strengthening gender statistics across domains. Most recently, she is working on time-use data for policy analysis. She was co-PI on the Gender Asset Gap project, a unique project that pioneered individual-level asset and wealth data collection and contributed to global guidelines for collecting such data. She is Senior Economist (Gender) at the Economic Research and Development Impact, at the Asian Development Bank. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (India).