Summary Notes: First Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Development: August, 2010
Aug 2010
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad
The Inter-American Development Bank has launched a significant, multi-year program of analytical work on Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective of this…
Early Social-Emotional and Cognitive Basis for Human Development Potential, and Improved Quality of Life
May 2007
Author(s): Greenspan, Stanley;Breinbauer, Cecilia
This presentation discusses the effects of social motivation on brain development in early childhood and the role of emotions on child development. Optimal nutrition and social-emotional development…
Anthropometric Failures: Nutrition, Early Child Interventions and Emotional, and Cognitive Development Potentials
May 2007
Author(s): Giuffrida, Antonio
This presentation deals with the following issue: how poverty, poor health, nutrition and care affect child development. The author reviews a series of "capabilities approaches," including…