Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. By Florencia López-Boo. Para leer este artículo en español, haz click aquí. Poor child development has important consequences for the wellbeing of children in particular, and of society as a whole. Profound socioeconomic … [Read more...] about Inaction In the Early Childhood Years Has a High Cost
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Coaching for the Children: Shaping Interactions for Child Development
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. By Jill McFarren Aviles. (Para leer este artículo en español, haz click aquí.) Picture a caregiver engaging an infant with a smile, describing the movement of their hands or lulling the infant to sleep with a soft voice. … [Read more...] about Coaching for the Children: Shaping Interactions for Child Development
All Work and Low Pay: Why We Need to Pay More Attention to the Early Childhood Workforce
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. Lee en español. By Kimberly Josephson and Gabriela Guerrero. Lucía walks 30 minutes to a home in a rural community in Peru, where she is greeted by a mother and her son. She asks how things are going and asks about the … [Read more...] about All Work and Low Pay: Why We Need to Pay More Attention to the Early Childhood Workforce
What Are the Most Pressing Development Needs According to People in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. Lee en español. By Tracy Betts. I recently shared the results of an interesting survey commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank in which over 33,500 respondents across the Americas defined their priorities for … [Read more...] about What Are the Most Pressing Development Needs According to People in Latin America and the Caribbean?
The Instruments that Work for You might not Work for All
Copyright © 2017. Inter-American Development Bank. If you wish to republish an article, please ask for permission at sph-communication@iadb.org. By Florencia Lopez Boo and Marta Dormal. We have learned in this blog that policymakers and researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can measure the quality of their Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in … [Read more...] about The Instruments that Work for You might not Work for All