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- Title
Private Sector Can Meet Child Care Demands.
- Authors
Taylor, Peter Shawn
- Abstract
This paper proposes to investigate how government policies can lead to an inefficient allocation of resources within the licensed child care sector. If the supply of regulated day care spaces is indeed a concern, advocates should be promoting a greater role for the private sector. Domestic and international experience, as well as common sense, suggest that the private sector will always be more efficient at allocating scarce child care resources than the public sector. In Canada, provinces that allow commercial operators to participate in fee subsidy and grant programs spend less per regulated child care space than those provinces that discriminate against private operations. If the supply of child care is a problem and government funding a constraint, then the solution lies in encouraging greater private sector participation.
- Subjects
CANADA; CHILD care; PRIVATE sector; GOVERNMENT policy; PUBLIC sector; RESOURCE allocation
- Publication
Fraser Forum, 2004, p4
- ISSN
0827-7893
- Publication type
Article