Raising children: the case for government intervention -- A report card on early childhood development -- Family first -- Daycare services: it's all about quality -- Early schooling: teachers make the difference -- More bang for the buck: investing in early childhood development -- Drawing up an...

Introduction -- Dependency theory in the post-1945 development literature of Latin America -- Marini's Marxism and dependency theory today -- Neo-imperialism and neo-dependency: two sides of the same historical-political process -- Sub-imperialism and dependency -- The United States and Brazil:...