UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Child development in developing countries
Professor Orazio Attanasio (UCL Economics)
Date: 22nd November 2011
In this lecture Professor Attanasio talks about the recent interest in child development in developing countries, through intervention in early years, and describes a pilot intervention programme that his research team has been developing in Colombia and India. Early years intervention has proved to be very effective in having long lasting impacts on individual development, and this lecture discusses the challenges of identifying modalities that can be delivered at low cost and therefore scaled up in developing countries, and understanding the mechanisms through which these interventions work.
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