Last week at the United Nations in New York I was asking what keeps unpaid care off development policy agendas. By care, I was referring to meeting the material and/or developmental, emotional and spiritual needs of other people through direct personal inter-action. Who could disagree that care is pretty important for the continuation of society and for human wellbeing? So why is it rarely talked about in debates about development policy -for example in discussions about what should be the world's development goals after 2015?
Here are some of the explanations I was given.
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