This article from Veja, a weekly magazine in Brazil, features a Q&A interview by Nathalia Goulart with Jack P. Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child. Shonkoff states that investing in high-quality early childhood care and education is the best investment society can make, particularly for children of low-income families, and that education is the key to economic productivity in a global economy. The article is available in Portuguese only.