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

"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 …

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 …

, 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 …

"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 …

already met and surpassed projected reductions in the number of underweight children under five years old to below 18 percent … children and families have not shared in these gains. Over 30 million Indonesians live below the poverty line (US $2 per day … children's development at risk and threatening national progress. A notable achievement for Indonesia is that primary school …