TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hentschel,Jesko
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Life chances in Turkey: expanding opportunities for the next generation 
T2  - Directions in development. Human development
SN  - 9780821384015
AV  - HN656.5.A85 L54 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Social indicators
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Sosyal göstergeler
KW  - Türkiye
KW  - Children
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Çocuklar
KW  - Sosyal durum
KW  - 21. yüzyıl
KW  - Ekonomik durum
KW  - etuturkob
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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; 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; 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; 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
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio12687449
ER  -