Children and youth in low- and middle-income countries: Toward an integrated developmental and intervention science

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-66

  Wuermli, Alice J ^a   Tubbs, Carly C ^b   Petersen, Anne C ^c   Aber, J Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent development; Child development; Culture; Early childhood development; Global; Intervention evaluation; Low and middle income countries; Policy; Youth development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923107242     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12108     Document Type: Article

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