Early Years (eBook)

Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy

Inter-American Development Bank, Norbert Schady (Autoren)

Samuel Berlinski, Norbert Schady (Herausgeber)

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2015 | 1st ed. 2015
XXII, 262 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-53649-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such programs will lower the returns on the hefty investments being made in primary, secondary, and higher education. Policies for young children belong at the core of a country's development agenda, alongside policies to develop infrastructure and strengthen institutions. However, if the services provided (or funded) by governments are to benefit children, they must be substantially better than what is currently being delivered in the region. This book offers suggestions for improving public policy in this critical area.

Autor

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is an international institution created in 1959 to foster economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Inhalt

1. Raising Children: The Case for Government Intervention2. A Report Card on Early Childhood Development 3. Family First4. Daycare Services: It's All about Quality5. Early Schooling: Teachers Make the Difference6. More Bang for the Buck: Investing in Early Childhood Development7. Drawing up an Institutional Architecture8. The Task at Hand: Anything but Child's Play

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2015
• Zusatzinfo: XXII, 262 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Breastfeeding • Childcare • Child Development • Childhood • childhood studies • children • Conditional cash transfers • Cost-Benefit • Daycare • Development • early childhood • Early Childhood Development • Early schooling • Economics • Education • Government • government intervention • Health • Infant Mortality • Intervention • language • Latin America and the Caribbean • parenting • Pre-primary schooling • Primary school • Public Expenditure • Public Policy • Social Expenditure • Social protection • Stunting
• ISBN-10: 1-137-53649-7 / 1137536497
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53649-5 / 9781137536495