Poverty, Child Risk, and Resilience in Developing Countries
Growing up in poverty has been consistently linked to reduced cognitive and social-emotional competence in children from both developed (Klebanov and Brooks-Gunn 2006) and low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries (Grantham-McGregor et al. 2007). Reduced competence undermines young children’s school r...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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