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Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert - 2016
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 …
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Promoting Early Childhood Development Through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs
Arriagada, Ana-Maria - 2018
stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …
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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own and interactively are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968191
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The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia : Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children
Brinkman, Sally - 2017
rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …
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Does Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking Water Limit Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh?
Haque, Sabrina Sharmin - 2017
be particularly harmful for children during their critical growth periods and have impacts on early childhood development … sample of around 7,500 children ages 3-5 years. Early childhood development is measured in four skills domains: literacy …, there is a clear dose-response relationship, where those children with exposure to higher concentrations of arsenic have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949042
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959138
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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia
Apella, Ignacio - 2018
The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of this group of workers focuses on three key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911328
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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937561
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Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : Methodological Considerations When Estimating an Empirical Regional Poverty Line
Castaneda, Raul - 2017
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969605
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Extending the School Day in Latin America and the Caribbean
Holland, Peter - 2017
Countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are reforming their education systems to add more hours to the school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971577