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Financing Investments in Young Children Globally Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, and The Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, Ambedkar University, Delhi (2015) / Chapter Skim
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2 The Case for Financing Investments in Young Children
Pages 7-14

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... In addition, improving investments in child development programming requires a harmoniza 1  This section summarizes information presented by Joan Lombardi, Bernard van Leer Foundation.
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... Finally, she stated that children develop over time, not just in one stage or age, so promoting child development must be seen as a continuum from prenatal through the early primary years. BUILDING AN INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD2 Pia Rebello Britto, UNICEF, stated that investment is about "transferring today's purchasing power to the future with an expectation of positive returns." Early childhood development is similar -- it provides the foundation for human and social development with economic and social gains.
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... Because child development initiatives are multisectoral, limited costing information is available, making it difficult to calculate risk.
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... private sector, including corporate social responsibility and financing for social impact; and 3. civil society, including fee-for-service, charitable giving, and development agencies.
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... strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries to improve domes tic capacity for tax and other revenue collection; 3  Thissection summarizes information presented by Jan van Ravens, a consultant affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine. 4  See http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/focussdgs.html (accessed September 4, 2014)
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... mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources; 4. assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustain ability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief, and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
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... Data reused by permission of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Figure 2-1 Bitmapped legend retyped reach children due to inefficient spending, leakages in the system, and poor governance.
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