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State of Care
For years, we’ve spoken about care through the lens of gender disparity or data gaps. But this isn’t only about gender. It’s a structural failure in how we define value, measure growth, allocate public finance, and design our economic systems.
Care is not the economy’s afterthought. It is its foundation. It is time we count it. Fund it. Plan for it.
Defining Eldercare Economy - Why India's Silver Shift demands a Taxonomy
The Demographic Shift & Policy Imperative - Unlike many ageing societies that grew rich before they grew old, India is ageing at lower income levels and with large informal labour markets. The challenge is stark - how to secure dignified, affordable, and inclusive eldercare while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion.
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Financing Caring Futures - Compendium of Global Care Financing Models & Pathways for India - Part 1
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.
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The Silver Shift
India has more than 153 million elderly population today but no eldercare system. Public sector solutions are scattered and underfunded. Private sector solutions remain urban and niche. What will it take to shift from aspirations without architecture to an equitable functional eldercare system in India?
Explore whats coming up in this special series designed to chart the move to a functional eldercare system
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India's Care Financing Deficit
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.
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The Invisible 2.6 billion hours powering India every day!
This article is the first in the 3-Part series on The Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development The trilogy also...
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Emerging Care Shifts & What They Signal for India's Care Economy
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.
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The State of Care: Exposing a Macroeconomic Blindspot
In India alone, women perform an estimated 2.6 billion hours of unpaid care work every single day... Across most economies, including...
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Caring Futures -from Invisible Work to Care Economy
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.
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