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Child well-being is multidimensional. This chapter summarizes the evidence on the health, nutrition, cognitive, language, socioemo-tional, and motor development of young children in Latin America and the Caribbean. These measures are important in their own right, and because of their implications for long-term productivity and growth in the region. Where possible, comparisons across countries, changes over time, and differences within countries, especially by wealth or parental education—so-called socioeconomic gradients— are made to provide an added dimension to the description, and a clearer picture of the state of well-being of the region’s children.
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- Infant Mortality
- Early Childhood Development
- Receptive Vocabulary
- Socioeconomic Gradient
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary
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Berlinski, S., Schady, N. (2015). A Report Card on Early Childhood Development. In: Berlinski, S., Schady, N. (eds) The Early Years. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137536495_2
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