Investing in early childhood development essential to helping more children and communities thrive, new Lancet Series finds

An estimated 43 percent—249 million—of children under five in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at an elevated risk of poor development due to extreme poverty and stunting, according to findings from The Lancet’s new Series, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale.

From: http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/investing-early-childhood/en/index.html