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Policy lessons for Latin Americaand the Caribbean Thais Sanches CardosoSol Vande RustenJosefina Vial Prieto Thank you for your interest inthis ECLAC publication Please register if you would like to receive information on our editorialproducts and activities. When you register, you may specify your particularareas of interest and you will gain access to our products in other formats. Click on the link below for our social networks andother channels for accessing our publications: https://bit.ly/m/CEPAL What policies strengthenearly childhood development? Policy lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean Thais Sanches CardosoSol Vande RustenJosefina Vial Prieto This document was prepared byThais SanchesCardoso, SolVande Rusten and JosefinaVial Prieto, under the academicguidance of Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, and the supervision of Zhamilya Mukasheva, Fellow inPublic Policy, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). It was produced as part ofthe Master of Public Policy programme, in the context of the collaboration between the Economic Commission forLatinAmerica and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and LSE, and within the framework of the project “Productive, ecologicaland socially just economic transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean”, which is part of the ECLAC-BMZ/GIZcooperation programme managed by ECLAC in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für InternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) and financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)of Germany. The authors are grateful for the support from Claudia Robles and Raquel Santos Garcia from the Social DevelopmentDivision at ECLAC and their review of the document; their expertise and guidance were instrumental in this work.Thanks are also owed to Daniela Trucco, Daniela Huneeus and Ignacia Abufhele, from the same Division, for theirvaluable comments. Special thanks are extended to Professor Nicholas Barr and Zhamilya Mukasheva for theirguidance and constructive feedback throughout the research process, and to Zhamilya Mukasheva for reviewingthis publication. The authors also acknowledge the time, perspectives and expertise of the six interviewees, who enriched theunderstanding of early childhood development policy and practice. Lastly, they are grateful to LSE for fosteringthe academic environment that made this research possible. The United Nations and the countries it represents assume no responsibility for the content of links to external sitesin this publication. Mention of any firm names and commercial products or services does not imply endorsement by the United Nationsor the countries it represents. The views expressed in this document, which did not undergo formal editing, are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the Organisation or the countries it represents. United Nations PublicationLC/TS.2026/15Distribution: LCopyright © United Nations, 2026All rights reservedPrinted at United Nations, SantiagoS.2600025[E] This publication should be cited as: Sanches Cardoso, T., Vande Rusten, S. and Vial Prieto, J. (2026). What policies strengthenearly childhood development? Policy lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean.Project Documents(LC/TS.2026/15).EconomicCommission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Applications for authorisation to reproduce this work in whole or in part should be sent to the Economic Commission forLatinAmerica and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Documents and Publications Division, publicaciones.cepal@un.org. Member Statesand their governmental institutions may reproduce this work without prior authorisation but are requested to mention the sourceand to inform ECLAC of such reproduction. Contents Executive summary................................................................................................................5Introduction..........................................................................................................................7I.Importance of early childhood development.................................................................11A.Nurturing care for early childhood development..............................................................11B.Evidence: impacts, costs, returns.....................................................................................12II.Case studies...............................................................................................................15A.Case selection and methodology.....................................................................................15B.Selected programmes.....................................................................................................161.England: Sure Start..................................................................................................162.India: Integrated Child Development Services...........................................................173.The Kingdom of the Netherlands: Solid S