‘Investing in Early Years on Human Capital for Future Resilience: For an Inclusive and Equitable World’ focuses on the urgent need for global investments in young children for realizing sustainable development and equitable outcomes for all. Access to services and participation, equity and inclusion are key drivers to realize the rights of the child.
Moving beyond a cost-benefit analysis, this book provides a socio-economic perspective that attributes crucial early years investments in health, nutrition, education, social protection, and public finance for children as vital for human capital development, inclusive economic growth and wider social empowerment. Using an evidence-based lens, this book draws on the knowledge of multiple technical experts to offer a cross-sectoral analysis of integrated gender and age-sensitive policy and programmes, and argues that child development is fundamental for a resilient future.
The book concludes that timely investments in integrated approaches to child well-being, rights and development will predict the future of the world’s children and pave the way for global human-centric development.
