Early Childhood in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities
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Latin America and the Caribbean is a dynamic and culturally, economically and ethnically diverse region, including countries at different stages of political and economic development. The region’s population has nearly trebled since the Second World War, reaching 459 million in 1993 (Grant, 1995). Latin America as a whole has shifted from a continent largely populated by villagers to one of people concentrated in major urban centres, representing nearly three quarters of the region’s population. It is thus the most urbanized continent in the developing world. Urbanization throughout the region is proceeding faster than the growth of employment and basic services, and is straining the available economic and social facilities and infrastructures. One result has been the growth of spontaneous slums and shanty towns in the large urban areas of many countries in the region..
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تاریخ انتشار 1999