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Healthy population ageing depends on investment in early childhood learning and development

Interventions in the early years provide a sustainable solution by generating long-term labour productivity and social welfare benefits

Citation:
Geelhoed L, George P, Clark K, Strahan K. Healthy population ageing depends on investment in early childhood learning and development. In: Bloom DE, editor. Live long and prosper? The economics of ageing populations: VoxEU; 2019.

Abstract:
Population ageing presents policy challenges across the social and economic spectrum. Interventions in the early years provide a sustainable solution by generating long-term labour productivity and social welfare benefits. Prevention and mitigation strategies are commonly developed within national or even narrower perspectives, but coordinated global efforts are required to gather the best available research to inform evidence based policies.