1. Human Development Traps and Economic Growth David Mayer Foulkes CIDE, Mexico

2. Early Child Development Intergenerational Human Capital Accumulation

3. Economic Growth and Human Development: Technophysio-evolution

4. Dynamic Human Development Trap

5. Double-Peaked Distribution for Education in Mexico: Spouses

6. Human Development Potential: Dynamics across Countries

7. Human Development Potential Dynamics across Countries: Technophysio-evolution

8. Cognitive Capacity: Social Externalities Local average male and female adult cognitive capacity by income levels: Determinant of average infant cognitive capacity

9. Cognitive Traps

10. Conclusions Human development potential is local: Human development is subject to traps: –Poor population may not reach local human development potential

11. The Challenge To define and measure the current stages of human development (technophysioevolution) in Latin America –across population levels –through the life cycle To understand its current determinants