ARNEC features Dr. Shaeffer’s insights on the promises and challenges of development facing the world’s young children and their families post-COVID-19, especially those who will bear the most adverse effects of the pandemic, on account of poverty, disability, gender, social circumstance, and/or ethnic and religious affiliation.

His article is part of ARNEC Conversations, an initiative to bring together the ECD community in a meaningful exchange of views on issues and concerns affecting early childhood development in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.