Extending the Jamaican early childhood development intervention

Journal of Applied Research on Children

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Grantham Mcgregor, Sally ^a   Smith, Joanne A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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