The Social Protection, Labor and Jobs (SPLJ) team, as part of the overall cross-sectoral team, will contribute to the Investing in the Early Years (IEY) global initiative to curate and disseminate knowledge...
Children’s nutritional status has been improving in Bangladesh, and yet challenges remain. The prevalence of stunting is among the world’s highest, at 36 percent. The incidence of low birth weight is also...
Significant segments of the population in Mexico face food insecurity and nutrition challenges, despite having reduced poverty to just over three percent in 2014. Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program...
The development of Madagascar’s young children is hampered severely by widespread malnutrition, limited opportunities for early learning, and a lack of attention to stimulation, care and parenting. Malagasy...
At the start of the new millennium, malnutrition in Senegal was a major concern. Nearly one in every three children under five years were stunted, one in ten were wasted, and two in ten were underweight...
Stunting is a widespread and persistent condition in Indonesia affecting more than 7.5 million children under five years. The levels of exclusive breastfeeding, age-appropriate complementary feeding, dietary...
The brief examines the existing evidence and the potential for bringing together cash transfer programs and parenting interventions on early child stimulation to improve child development outcomes, notably...
The evidence accumulated in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, pediatrics, and economics as well as the various lessons learned in matters of policies and social and child development programs...