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Amar Amar, Jose Juan – 1996
In Latin America and the Caribbean, 240 million people, or 50 percent of the population, live in poverty. This report, written in Spanish, summarizes research by the Proyecto Costa Atlantica into the effects of such widespread poverty on the cognitive and social development of children. After an introduction on the general responses of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Community Role, Disadvantaged Environment