A guide to public investments in the care economy: Policy support tool for estimating care deficits, investment costs, and economic returns

In A guide to public investments in the care economy: Policy support tool for estimating care deficits, investment costs, and economic returns, UN Women and the International Labour Organization (ILO) provide a methodology for identifying the coverage gaps in care services (namely public healthcare, long-term care, early childhood care and education, and primary and secondary education); estimating the costs of public investments and expenditures for eliminating these coverage gaps; and assessing the various economic returns to such investments in the short- and the long-run.

UN Women and the ILO are both policy partners for the Care Economies in Context project.

Citation

UN Women and International Labour Organization. (2021). A Guide to Public Investments in the Care Economy: Policy Support Tool for Estimating Care Deficits, Investment Costs and Economic Returns. UN Women. https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/Library/Publications/2021/Policy-tool-Care-economy-en.pdf