Children of the Urban Poor : The Sociocultural Environment of Growth , Development , and Malnutrition in Guatemala City
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What are the effects of the environment on child growth, cognitive development and ultimately academic achievement in a poor community? These are the key questions raised in this book, which describes a comprehensive longitudinal study of young children living in a poor community in Guatemala City in the early 1980s. As explained in the appendix, although it would perhaps have been better placed as an early chapter, the study was initiated by the belief that
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تاریخ انتشار 2001