My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s been frustrating at times, but she should be celebrating right now: Oxfam’s
bought in with projects that include developing a ‘rapid care analysis’ assessment tool; Melinda Gates decided to highlight Time Poverty
in the Gates’ annual letter, and now for International Women’s Day, ODI has published an excellent report on the ‘hidden crisis in childcare’.

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