Investment in Childhood Can Reduce Poverty and Contain Future Public Spending, Says OECD Economic Journal
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The warning is from a report by the Paris-based organization, published this Monday, October 5, which concludes that children growing up in poverty or under unfavourable socio-economic conditions are more likely to have more fragile health, lower school performance and less employment opportunities, which in the long term results in lower productivity, lower tax revenue and higher costs for governments.
In a new report, the OECD shows how various measures to support families improve the health and educational performance of children, as well as the employment rate of parents.
Member States of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) could achieve significantly greater improvements in children's living conditions if it directed additional social spending towards early childhood education and care, support for employment and income, as well as essential services, according to a new [...] The post OECD Report: Investments in early education can bring greater benefits to children and can reduce l…
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today argued that early childhood investment can help reduce poverty and contain the pressure on public finances in the future.
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