surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …. In many countries, there has been a shift toward grandparents taking on increased childcare responsibility … there are also changes in childcare patterns in countries with stable orphan rates or low HIV prevalence. This suggests …

child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin …"Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health …, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children …

"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their 'adoptive 'families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …

millions of children living in poverty don't receive enough stimulation or good nutrition in their first years of life, and …Children need a safe, nurturing, healthy, and stimulating environment to thrive and reach their full potential. But … poverty also makes them more likely to experience neglect and violence in the home. Domestic violence, however, is rarely …

"There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in … development (ECD) outcomes are important markers of the welfare of children. In addition, the deleterious effects of poor outcomes … childhood and measures of household socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting practices, as well as on the impact of …

Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs is maximized when the interventions are targeted to children from disadvantaged …

Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority … has been through several exogenous shocks and crises likely to have affected the pattern of poverty outcomes. In the past …

be realized from investing in pre-primary education ranging from promoting children s school readiness to equalizing …

children in the Kyrgyz Republic. This report is part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using the Systems … International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The Kyrgyz Republic has a population of 5.5 million inhabitants, of which 65 … percent reside in rural locations. Nearly 36.8 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and 8.6 percent of the …