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

By: Levy, Santiago.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006Description: xi, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Programa de Educacion, Salud y Alimentacion (Mexico City, Mexico) -- Evaluation | Poor -- Mexico | Poor -- Government policy -- Mexico | Economic assistance, Domestic -- Mexico | Poverty -- MexicoGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.5/580972 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Foreword / James D. Wolfensohn -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Program background -- Program objectives and scope -- Program results -- Program institutional design -- Program perspectives -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.