Early childhood development, especially for the poor and disadvantaged, should be financed from public revenues, as are basic and secondary education.
In this article for the Bernard van Leer Foundation journal, Early Childhood Matters, Results for Development’s Vidya Putcha, Arjun Upadhyay, and Nicholas Burnett outline the evidence that early childhood is currently underfinanced, and argue that innovative financing mechanisms should be seen as a useful supplement – and a way to stimulate more conventional financing – rather than becoming the main financing mechanism.
