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Investing in Early Childhood - What can be done?

So much has been written recently about the individual, economic and social benefits of investing in early childhood development (ECD), that it is becoming a challenge to summarize these studies....

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New Reasons Why School-Based Deworming is Smart Development Policy

In the complex world of education policy, some experts comment that school-based deworming may be the closest we have come to finding a "magic bullet." In regions of the world with high worm burdens,...

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Educate to fight HIV this World AIDS Day

This content is abstracted from the HIV/AIDS and Education topic page.The positive impact of education reforms are greatly reduced by the presence of HIV/AIDS. This epidemic is damaging education...

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Early Childhood Development: As Latin America/Caribbean Countries Invest,...

The stimuli that children are exposed to from the beginning of life to age 5 have the greatest impact on development, and they define the health, personality and intellectual capacity of each child....

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Measuring the Economic Cost of Child Marriage

Today the U.K. government and UNICEF jointly hosted the first Girl Summit to mobilize efforts to end child, early, and forced marriage as well as female genital mutilation. According to a 2013 report...

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Extreme Poverty is More than Just Living on $1.25 a Day

“I want my children to be able to go to school. I don't want them to suffer like me.” Little by little this dream disappears as a piece of sugar, as water that runs through your hands. The long lists...

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School nutrition programs are the first line of defense against diabetes

Children having meals in school in Ghana. Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank April 7th is World Health Day, a day to highlight emerging global health concerns. The focus this year is raising awareness...

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The impact of Ebola on education in Sierra Leone

Also available in: EspañolWith the contribution of Kali Azzi-Huck, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Yinan Zhang A portrait of Selina Dougas, lost her old sister, Hawa Komo to Ebola, at the Cape Community...

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Globally, periods are causing girls to be absent from school

Also available in: Español  |  Francais Student at primary school in Freetown Sierra Leone. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank A UNESCO report estimates that one in ten girls in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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What we can learn from school feeding programs from around the world

Photo Credit: Charlotte Broyd Peel, Imperial College London, Partnership for Child Development The world is still recovering from the financial and food crises of 2008. A key response, especially in...

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School enrolment in Liberia is higher today than it was before the Ebola...

Post-Ebola recovery has been marked by a significant recovery and enrollment is up to the 2011 – 12 levels. (Photo credit: Katie Meyler/More Than Me) In March 2014, Liberia announced that there were...

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Working on early childhood development in Mali

An evaluation measuring the impact of daily micronutrient supplements combined with parent education on children’s development is underway. (Photo by:  Curt Carnemark / World Bank) Natalie Roschnik...

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The power of art: A call to action on the Early Years

View a slideshow of photos by Lieve Blancquaert hereEd’s note: This guest blog is by Dirk Wouters, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United States of America in Washington DC  A Kenyan...

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The rippling economic impacts of child marriage

A new study finds that child marriage could cost developing countries trillions of dollars by 2030, with the largest economic cost coming from its impact on fertility and population growth. Globally,...

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Global Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...

Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child DevelopmentAs leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...

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