Care financing is being redesigned across the world. Countries are testing innovative tools, from impact bonds to pooled national care funds. Explore the models in one place. The first in a 5 part series on Financing Caring Futures: Compendium Of Care Financing Instruments & potential pathways for India.
Dec 2025 | 11 min read | Release 4
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What is included in the Caring Futures Lever Edition
Care is not just a social good. It is economic infrastructure.
This inaugural edition of the Zouri Levers deep dives into India's care economy. It shows how care shapes labour participation, community resilience, growth, and productivity, yet remains structurally undervalued in public budgets and institutional design. Caring Futures is a map, not a manual. It offers evidence, global benchmarks, and decision pathways to help leaders shape India’s care economy as a core pillar of equitable development.
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Resources you can use
What's in it for leaders intending to shape the care economy?
The Caring Futures Lever Edition offers the evidence, insight, and imagination to make that shift, not just in theory, but in institutions, budgets, data systems, and workforce design. This edition is not a ready to use policy framework. It is a thinking space, a test bed of ideas, insights, models that leaders can use to explore options, design responses, and shape care economies.
Research-backed articles
reframing how care fuels growth, position care as a key lever of resilient equitable development
Policy & Programme Tools
for designing care responsive systems, shape social protection and labour market policies
Benchmarks & Compendium
from global care economies. models, experiences and lesson from wide range of countries
Leadership briefings
for government, philanthropy & corporations to inform policies, interventions and practices
Framework & Tools
to visualise the care economy, inform care financing budgets and measure value of care
Innovative Financing Models
for shaping and scaling care infrastructure, improving care availability & afforrdability
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Upcoming Releases under this Zouri Lever Edition
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Care Financing models in the public sector - Tax spending, insurance funds, and direct subsidies decide who gets care, how much, and at what cost
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Care Satellite Accounts 101 - Measuring What Matters
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The Care Workforce - Underpaid, Undervalued, Unprotected
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India’s Path to a National Care Strategy - Building Institutions for a Caring Equitable Economy
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Care Wallet - a conceptual and analytical instrument designed to quantify the
monetary value of care needs at the household level.
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Caring Futures Resource Hub
Shaping a strategic blueprint, combining macroeconomic evidence, global care financing models, frontline innovations, policy shaping tools and frameworks, and recommendations to help leaders shape Caring Futures across India and other emerging economies.
Longform Article
Dec 2025 | 11 min read | Release 4
Financing Caring Futures - Compendium of Global Care Financing Models & Pathways for India - Part 1
Without systems of care, women leave the workforce, ageing becomes a crisis, poverty passes from one generation to the next. Yet care is still underfunded and overlooked in many countries, including India.
Care financing is being redesigned across the world. Countries are testing innovative tools, from impact bonds to pooled national care funds. Explore the models in one place. The first in a 5 part series on Financing Caring Futures: Compendium Of Care Financing Instruments & potential pathways for India.
Longform Article
Nov 2025 | 6 min read | Release 3
Emerging Care Shifts & What They Signal for India's Care Economy
Countries treating care as infrastructure, similar to roads, electricity or digital networks are starting to see measurable returns in GDP, employment, and gender equity
Across the world, countries are investing in care as infrastructure — to drive growth, create jobs, and stabilise their futures. India is missing the moment. In Part 3 of Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development series, the-ZURI explores global care strategy shifts and what they signal for India’s economic path.
Longform Article
Sep 2025 | 7 min read | Release 2
India's Care Financing Deficit
Without strategic public investment, care will remain an invisible burden, undermining economic resilience and workforce participation
Part 2 of the Series - Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development looks at why India’s Care Financing Deficit is not just a policy oversight, it’s a structural risk. As public investment stagnates and private care costs soar, the burden falls unfairly on unpaid and underpaid labour. This article exposes the cracks in care financing and why investing in the care economy is essential for equity, productivity, and growth.
Longform Article
Oct 2025 | 11 min read | Release 1
The Invisible 2.6 billion hours powering India every day!
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Neglecting care is not neutral. It perpetuates inequality and stifles economic performance
This article is the first in the 3-Part series on The Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development The trilogy also...
Longform Article
Aug 2025 | 6 min read | Lever Edition Intro
Caring Futures -from Invisible Work to Care Economy
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What’s the biggest blind spot in our economic thinking?
Care powers our economies, but remains invisible in our policies, budgets, and data. Caring Futures, a new 6-part ZURI Lever Inaugural Edition reframes care as economic infrastructure. Drawing on global models and India’s own realities, it offers a decision maker’s guide to designing equitable, resilient care systems.