Stanford Center on Early Childhood (SCEC) and The Rural Education Action Program (REAP) are pleased to host Harvard University Professor Chunling Lu for a special seminar event.
 
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Global, Regional, and Country Level Prevalence of Young Children Exposed to Risks of Poor Development in Low and Middle Income Countries: An Update

Quantifying the prevalence of young children exposed to risks of poor development is imperative for understanding the challenges of reducing those risks, developing and evaluating evidence-based early childhood development policy interventions, and assessing progress in eliminating the risks imposed upon young children during their most critical developmental period. We published estimates on the prevalence of young children exposed to stunting and extreme poverty at the global, regional, and country levels in 2017. Since new data have been released and a new definition of extreme poverty has been proposed, we updated our 2017 study with a focus on the progress in reducing the prevalence of risk exposure at different levels since 2000. For countries with other risk factors available in their micro-level data, we added them to the composite measure and assessed the levels and trends of sociodemographic disparities in young children’s risk exposure.