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dc.titleEscaping the Poverty Trap: Investing in Children in Latin America
dc.contributor.authorAldaz-Carroll, Enrique
dc.contributor.authorBirdsall, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorCastañeda, Tarsicio
dc.contributor.authorBrundtland, Gro Harlem
dc.contributor.authorSen, Amartya
dc.contributor.authorUrrutia, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorMyers, Robert G.
dc.contributor.authorMorán, Ricardo
dc.contributor.editorMorán, Ricardo
dc.contributor.orgunitSustainable Development Department
dc.coverageThe Caribbean
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.coverageCentral America
dc.date.available2011-10-21T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2003-01-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractEscaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director-general of the World Health Organization. In examining the effects of family background on ITP in 16 Latin American countries, the study emphasizes that conception through preschool is when vulnerability to lifetime damage is greatest, but also when there is the most potential for cost-effective interventions to break out of that destructive cycle. Insufficient education is cited as the principal vector of poverty throughout the life cycle and across generations.
dc.format.extent139
dc.identifier.isbn9781931003568
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Escaping-the-Poverty-Trap-Investing-in-Children-in-Latin-America.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectYouth and Children
dc.subject.keywordsPoverty, intergenerational transmission of poverty, income inequality, early childhood, underclass, intervention, education, public policy, anti-poverty programs, incentives, subsidies, indigenous peoples, family-focused programs, community development
dc.typeBooks
idb.identifier.pubnumberBooks
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