Agendas científicas y políticas sobre desarrollo infantil: Evolución de becas e ingresos de investigadores al CONICET en el periodo 2010-2020

In the last two decades, comprehensive child development as a social problem acquired relevance in the Argentine political agenda. This was manifested in the attachment to specific regional and global agendas that promoted the deployment of local State intervention programs. This period coincides with the development of policies that sought to give science and technology a higher profile -through budget increases and human resource training- and to orient them towards the resolution of social problems. Considering the above, it is of interest to investigate whether scientific agendas reflect political agendas and what factors influence this. This article aims to explore whether the growing public relevance given to child development was accompanied by a quantitative increase in the number of scholarship holders and researchers interested in related topics at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina. The results show an increase in relative terms of interest in financing projects related to the problem. The aim is to open a discussion on the relevance given to the financing of such projects, their geographical and disciplinary distribution, and the criteria on the basis of which these decisions are made.