"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 …

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

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

children in Colombia and recommendations to move forward …

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 … presents a holistic and integrated assessment of how the overall policy environment in a country affects young children …

children in Tajikistan. This report is part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using the Systems Approach for … adopt national laws and regulations that promote appropriate dietary consumption by pregnant women and young children. …

-schooling are higher enrollments among older children, showing that enrollments - eight percent in the 0-3 age group - were seen to …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children … for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …