No Small Matter: The impact of poverty, shocks, and human capital investments in early childhood development
Harold Alderman
Education is often seen as a fundamental means to improve economic prospects for individuals from low income settings. However, even with increased emphasis on basic education for all, many individuals fail to achieve basic skills to succeed in life. The book presents evidence that one core reason is that by the time a child is old enough to attend school, there is already a wide disparity in cognitive skills and in emotional and behavioral development among children from households of different socioeconomic backgrounds. Low levels of cognitive development in early childhood strongly correlat.
Year:
2011
Publisher:
World Bank
Language:
english
Pages:
183
ISBN 10:
6613016314
ISBN 13:
9786613016317
Series:
Human development perspectives.
File:
PDF, 1.90 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2011
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