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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784489803321

Autore

Levy Santiago

Titolo

Progress against poverty [[electronic resource] ] : sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades program / / Santiago Levy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-76568-2

9786610765683

0-8157-5222-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Disciplina

362.5/580972

Soggetti

Poor - Mexico

Poor - Government policy - Mexico

Economic assistance, Domestic - Mexico

Poverty - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / James D. Wolfensohn -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Program background -- Program objectives and scope -- Program results -- Program institutional design -- Program perspectives -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Case study of Progresa-Oportunidades that describes the origins, objectives, and institutional design and scope of Progresa; provides a broad assessment of results to date; discusses the main challenges faced by the program in the future; and makes some suggestions for poverty programs drawn from the main lessons of the study"--Provided by publisher.