Child Development

Investment in the physical, mental and emotional development of all children is the very foundation for economic development, social cohesion and political stability. Unless this investment is made, all of humanity 's most fundamental problems will remain fundamental long-term problems. Needs and rights of children should become the common cause and common cry of action groups and people's movements, world over.

Starting with the basic and the specefic goals of survival, haealth and education that has alrady been accepted by the international community, the cause of the children should be taken up by the thousands of groups and the millions of people, who are present, involved in working for change.

The principal technologies for meeting the children's needs at relativelylow cost are already avialable the social capicity largely in place and the financial cost frankly negligible in relation to what humanity has at stake in this race.

Meeting the children's needs depend not just on social services, but on their parents havg their parents having jobs and incomes.

Even if the recources were to be made available, money alone is not sufficient, and sustained political commitement and competent management are just as important, the report notes. But to say that, the world cannot at this stage afford the financial cost of meeting it's children's needs and ending some of the very worst aspect of poverty, malnutrition, preventable disease and illiteracy is plainly absurd. There is a need to kindle a new sense of this absurdity among a worldwide public.