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Developmental Potential in the First 5 Years for Children in Developing Countries

January, 2007
Santiago CuetoProfessor Paul Glewwe
Grantham-McGregor, Sally, Yin Bun Cheung, Linda Richter, Barbara Strupp. the Int'l Child Dev Steering Group
  • Malnutrition and cognitive development
The Lancet 369.9555: 60-70
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Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally aff ect their cognitive, motor, and socialemotional development. There are few national statistics on the development of young children in developing countries. We therefore identifi ed two factors with available worldwide data?the prevalence of early childhood stunting and the number of people living in absolute poverty—to use as indicators of poor development. We show that both indicators are closely associated with poor cognitive and educational performance in children and use them to estimate that over 200 million children under 5 years are not fulfi lling their developmental potential. Most of these children live in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. These disadvantaged children are likely to do poorly in school and subsequently have low incomes, high fertility, and provide poor care for their children, thus contributing to the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

The article is reproduced with the permission from Lancet. Online version is available here.

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