The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Emiliana Vegas and Lucrecia Santibáñez

No 362 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: 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. This publication belongs to the Latin American Development Forum Series (LADF), sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the World Bank.

Keywords: Latin American Development Forum; LADF; impact evaluation; human development; inequality; child development; conditional cash transfers; ECD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780821377598
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