The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America.

Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The deleterious effects of poor early childhood development outcomes can be long-lasting, affecting sc...

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Main Author: Vegas, Emiliana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : World Bank, 2009.
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505 0 |a About the Authors; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. An Analytical Framework for Early Childhood Development; Figure 1.1 Early Childhood Development: Analytical Framework; Table 1.1 Most Commonly Used Psychometric Tests in ECD Evaluations; 2. Overview of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Today; Figure 2.1 Percentage of Children Less Than Five Years Old Who Are Poor, by Region, 2004; Figure 2.2 Poverty Rates Measured by GDP per Capita, 2007. 
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