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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare

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dc.contributor.authorSiaens, Corinne
dc.contributor.authorWodon, Quentin
dc.contributor.authorYitzhaki, Shlomo
dc.contributor.authorde la Briere, Benedicte
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-13T11:20:55Z
dc.date.available2012-08-13T11:20:55Z
dc.date.issued2003-01
dc.description.abstractPROGRESA (Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion) is an innovative Mexican program that provides cash transfers to poor rural households, on condition that their children attend school and their family visits local health centers regularly. Confronted with rising poverty after the economic crisis of 1995, the Mexican government progressively changed its poverty reduction strategy, ending universal tortilla subsidies and instead funding new investment in human capital through PROGRESA. The program gives cash grants to poor rural households, provided their children attend school for 85 percent of school days and the household, visit public health clinics and participate in educational workshops on health and nutrition. Founded in 1997, PROGRESA grew to cover around 2.6 million families by the end of 1999, the equivalent of 40 percent of all rural families, and one in nine families nationally. Operating in 31 of the 32 states, in 50,000 localities and 2,000 municipalities, its 1999 budget of US$777 million equaled 0.2 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product. The high level of funding for PROGRESA, and reduced funding for other programs, was based on a deliberate policy decision - to favor programs that are better targeted to the poor, which involve co-responsibility by beneficiaries, and which promote long-term behavioral change.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2519958/mexicos-progresa-innovative-targeting-gender-focus-impact-social-welfare
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/10396
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/10396
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesen breve; No. 17
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
dc.subjectADULTHOOD
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectBABIES
dc.subjectBASIC EDUCATION
dc.subjectBIRTH SPACING
dc.subjectCASH TRANSFERS
dc.subjectCLINICS
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectENROLLMENT
dc.subjectENROLLMENT RATES
dc.subjectFAMILIES
dc.subjectGIRLS
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE
dc.subjectHEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectHYGIENE
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectINFANTS
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION
dc.subjectMOTHERS
dc.subjectNUTRITION
dc.subjectNUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
dc.subjectPARENTS
dc.subjectPOOR
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPREGNANCY
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMEN
dc.subjectPRENATAL CARE
dc.subjectPRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subjectPUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subjectREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectSCHOOLS
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subjectTARGETING
dc.subjectTRANSFER AMOUNTS
dc.subjectWASTE
dc.subjectYOUNG PEOPLE CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subjectSOCIAL WELFARE
dc.subjectGENDER ISSUES
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectHEALTH ISSUES
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
dc.subjectGRANTS IN AID
dc.subjectEDUCATION PROGRAMS
dc.subjectHEALTH & NUTRITION PROGRAMS
dc.subjectPOOR FAMILIES
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
dc.titleMexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfareen
dc.title.alternativePROGRESA de Mexico : focalizacion innovadora, centrado en el genero y sus efectos en el bienestar socialen
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okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-29T09:38:46.754336Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Brief
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2519958/mexicos-progresa-innovative-targeting-gender-focus-impact-social-welfare
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum2519958
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryMexico
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Adolescent Health
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicEducation::Primary Education
okr.unitLCR Regional Vice President (LCRVP)
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