The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821377598)

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.

Author: Emiliana Vegas,Lucrecia Santibáñez
ISBN-10: 0821377590
ISBN-13: 9780821377598
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 141