Sri Lanka parliamentary forum calls for greater Investment in Early Childhood Development
A special parliamentary forum highlighting the transformative impact on investing in early childhood could have on Sri Lanka, was organized by the Sri Lanka Parliamentary Caucus for Children in partnership with UNICEF, and under the leadership of the Speaker of Parliament, Karu Jayasuriya.
Open to all Members of Parliament, this session presented new medical and economic research into the impact of early childhood development on economic and social development across Asia and Sri Lanka.
In his keynote address, renowned economist Dr. Michael Samson, Director of Research at Economic Policy Research Unit and author of British Medical Journal Global Health Paper entitled 'Cognitive capital, equity and child sensitive social protection Asia and the Pacific' presented his groundbreaking re...