World Bank Support to Early Childhood Development
The sustained benefits of early childhood interventions are well established in developed countries. Early development plays a major role in subsequent school performance, health, socialization, and future earnings. For children born into poverty, the equity enhancing impact of early childhood interventions hold the promise of overcoming social disadvantages and breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The World Bank's support to early childhood development is well aligned with the Bank's twin goals of reducing extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity.
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