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1 online resource (xiv, 91 pages) : illustrations |
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Directions in development. Human development |
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Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
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| Contents |
Introduction: life chances -- Equity aspirations -- The state of equality of opportunities in Turkey -- Child development and child risks -- Expanding opportunities for the next generation: early childhood development policies and programs -- Reflections |
| Summary |
Children in Turkey have vastly different odds of success. Their paths are affected by factors over which they have no control, such as how wealthy or educated their parents--and even grandparents--are. By investing in its children and youth, Turkey can create a virtuous cycle whereby these children and youth contribute more to their country's economic growth and social development, helping to realize its ambitious goals |
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Written to contribute to the public policy debate, Life Chances in Turkey: Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation notes that girls are at a particular disadvantage. Compared with a boy born to well-off, highly educated parents in one of the urban centers of the country's west, a girl born in a remote eastern village to poor parents with primary school degrees is four times as likely to suffer from low birth weight, one-third as likely to be immunized, and ten times as likely to have her growth stunted as a result of malnutrition. She has a one-in-five chance of completing high school, whereas the boy will likely attend college |
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With child development trajectories thus diverging early in life, pro-equity policies should focus on reaching the most disadvantaged children early, ideally before birth. Turkey, with the active involvement of nongovernmental organizations, has piloted a number of highly successful programs to reach and support disadvantaged children. But it can do more: only 6 percent of the country's total public social spending reaches children below the age of six. About four times more is spent on a middle-aged or elderly person than on a child |
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Life Chances finds that if today's under-40 Turkish adults had all benefited from one year of preschool education when they were 6 years old, family incomes could be up to 8 percent higher, one-tenth of poor families would not live in poverty today, and about 9 percent more women--in other words, millions--could be working or looking actively for a job. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social indicators -- Turkey
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Children -- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Children -- Social conditions
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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Social indicators
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Turkey -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hentschel, Jesko, 1962-
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World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2010015477 |
| ISBN |
9780821384015 |
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0821384015 |
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1282818872 |
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9781282818873 |
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9786612818875 |
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6612818875 |
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