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The Early Years
Samuel Berlinski and Norbert Schady
2015
The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such programs will lower the returns on the hefty investments being made in primary, secondary, and higher education. Policies for young children belong at the core of a country's development agenda, alongside policies to develop infrastructure and strengthen institutions. However, if the services provided (or funded) by governments are to benefit children, they must be substantially better than what is currently being delivered in the region. This book offers suggestions for improving public policy in this critical area.
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Keywords
- Breastfeeding
- Child development
- Childcare
- childhood
- Childhood and youth
- Children
- Children and Youth
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Cost-Benefit
- daycare
- Development
- Development economics
- early childhood
- Early Childhood Development
- Early schooling
- Economics
- Education
- Government
- government intervention
- Health
- Infant Mortality
- International economics
- Intervention
- Language
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Parenting
- Pre-primary schooling
- primary school
- Public Expenditure
- Public Policy
- Social Expenditure
- Social interaction
- Social issues & processes
- Social policy
- Social Protection
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Stunting
- Youth and Family Policy
Links
DOI: 10.1057/9781137536495web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137536495
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