paid parental leave benefits are uncommon outside asian oecd countries and most of the early childhood education and care supports concern children aged to oecd a exceptions are armenia azerbaijan china singapore and mongolia that spent considerable amounts in terms of social support for the working age population and children often in the form of incomemeanstested social assistance support or child benefits as in mongolia box furthermore the eamingsrelated nature of its pension system contributes to public spending on old age and survivor spending amounting to of gdp in oecd a