In the past 30 years, China has reached the target of lifting 500 million people out of poverty. The rate of increase in human development indicators has become the second fastest in the world, allowing...
The World Bank recently hosted a symposium on the priority of early child development (ECD) for economic growth and equity. The participants urged application of population-based tools and measures to...
Investing in early child development (ECD) - and the parenting skills that necessarily accompany it - may be one of the most effective means for policymakers to reduce youth risk-taking behavior. While...
Investing in early child development (ECD) - and the parenting skills that necessarily accompany it - may be one of the most effective means for policymakers to reduce youth risk-taking behavior. While...
The children born this year, 2004, will be eleven years old in 2015-the age of primary school completion in most countries. This is the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) generation-for whom the international...
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: In this edition: World Bank Contacts: Ready to Learn? Assessment of Needs, Policies, and Programs for Children...
'Early Childhood Development: Investing in the Future' offers the reader an overview of the many programs around the world that are targeting children from birth to the age of eight. These programs are...
'Early Childhood Development: Investing in the Future' offers the reader an overview of the many programs around the world that are targeting children from birth to the age of eight. These programs are...
This paper summarizes why investment in human capital formation through early child development is worthwhile. It reviews lessons learned from programs and projects in operation, and examines how such...
Over the past two decades, attention to and demand for early childhood programs has grown worldwide as a result of: (a) an increasing number of parents employed outside the home in environments where the...
Health problems of older women will become an increasingly important issue in developing countries partially because of the sheer increase in absolute numbers. Today, two out of three of the world's 469...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following issues: letter for the Senegal, by David Jones; the whiz kids: funny business at the office by Jill Roessner; a Caribbean experiment: International...