The care economy is essential in daily life and a driver of economic growth, human capital development, and employment. Gender is a defining characteristic of the care economy. Women spend 3.2 times more time on unpaid care work than men and constitute the majority of the care workforce....

About 20,000 early childhood development centers provided day care for and prepared for primary school more than 1 million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care facilities reached 23,690 by the end of 1999. The...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Terms -- Overview -- Introduction -- Current Landscape and Challenges of Aged Care in China -- Implications for the Future of Aged Care in China -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1 Population Aging and...

The case studies in this book were developed as part of a year-long learning process initiated by the World Bank in 2003-4 to examine large scale poverty reduction programs in a wide range of developing countries around the world. This volume presents 12 of the case studies from South Asia. ....

We analyse the effect of child care costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children 3--7 years of age, we model the participation of the mother in paid work, the participation of other household members in paid work, household demand for schooling for school-aged children...