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 school attai...

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Main Authors Emiliana Vegas, Lucrecia Santibanez
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published The World Bank 03.12.2009
SeriesLatin American Development Forum
Subjects
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
IMPACT EVALUATION
PUBLIC POLICY
INEQUALITY
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
NUTRITION
CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
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Summary: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 school attainment, employment, wages, criminality, and social integration of adults.The authors first take stock of early childhood development indicators in the region and explore access to early childhood development services for children of different backgrounds. They review recent evidence on the impact of early childhood development interventions in the region and investigate more deeply a selection of programs in Latin America and the Caribbean to distill lessons related to their design, implementation and institutionalization processes. The book concludes with a discussion of the challenges of scaling up and presents policy options to develop national early childhood development policies and programs that may be effective and sustained over time.
ISBN:0821377590
9780821377598
DOI:10.1596/978-0-8213-7759-8