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Investing In A Child's Early Years For A Stronger Economy

Investing In A Child's Early Years For A Stronger Economy

by 0 July 15 2016, 11:55 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 38 secs

Over the next two decades, India will have one of the youngest and largest working age populations in the world. On one hand, this is promising news. But for India to capitalize fully on this demographic dividend and participate productively in the global economy, it is critical for the country to invest in its citizens’ human and cognitive development.

The science is convincing - human development starts in a child’s earliest years, in the first 1000 days of life. Beginning with a woman’s pregnancy, and following through to the first two years of a child’s life, appropriate nutrition, early stimulation and learning, and a safe environment, are crucial for a child’s overall development.  

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Vinta Nanda


Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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