This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about
the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life
Liberalization
of economic policies world - over, and various intergovernmental negotiations to open trades between different countries, have resulted in
globalization, which, in my opinion, offers both tremendous opportunities, but also a few
threats.