Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare
PROGRESA (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. Co...
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okr-10986-103962021-04-23T14:02:50Z Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare Wodon, Quentin de la Briere, Benedicte Siaens, Corinne Yitzhaki, Shlomo ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ADULTHOOD AGED BABIES BASIC EDUCATION BIRTH SPACING CASH TRANSFERS CLINICS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES FAMILIES GIRLS HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HYGIENE INCOME INEQUALITY INFANTS MALNUTRITION MOTHERS NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS PARENTS POOR POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RURAL AREAS SCHOOLS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TARGETING TRANSFER AMOUNTS WASTE YOUNG PEOPLE CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL WELFARE GENDER ISSUES RURAL HOUSEHOLDS HEALTH ISSUES POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS GRANTS IN AID EDUCATION PROGRAMS HEALTH & NUTRITION PROGRAMS POOR FAMILIES COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PROGRESA (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. 2012-08-13T11:20:55Z 2012-08-13T11:20:55Z 2003-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2519958/mexicos-progresa-innovative-targeting-gender-focus-impact-social-welfare http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10396 English en breve; No. 17 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Mexico |
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ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ADULTHOOD AGED BABIES BASIC EDUCATION BIRTH SPACING CASH TRANSFERS CLINICS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES FAMILIES GIRLS HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HYGIENE INCOME INEQUALITY INFANTS MALNUTRITION MOTHERS NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS PARENTS POOR POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RURAL AREAS SCHOOLS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TARGETING TRANSFER AMOUNTS WASTE YOUNG PEOPLE CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL WELFARE GENDER ISSUES RURAL HOUSEHOLDS HEALTH ISSUES POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS GRANTS IN AID EDUCATION PROGRAMS HEALTH & NUTRITION PROGRAMS POOR FAMILIES COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION |
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ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ADULTHOOD AGED BABIES BASIC EDUCATION BIRTH SPACING CASH TRANSFERS CLINICS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES FAMILIES GIRLS HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HYGIENE INCOME INEQUALITY INFANTS MALNUTRITION MOTHERS NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS PARENTS POOR POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANCY PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RURAL AREAS SCHOOLS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TARGETING TRANSFER AMOUNTS WASTE YOUNG PEOPLE CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL WELFARE GENDER ISSUES RURAL HOUSEHOLDS HEALTH ISSUES POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS GRANTS IN AID EDUCATION PROGRAMS HEALTH & NUTRITION PROGRAMS POOR FAMILIES COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION Wodon, Quentin de la Briere, Benedicte Siaens, Corinne Yitzhaki, Shlomo Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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PROGRESA (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. |
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Wodon, Quentin de la Briere, Benedicte Siaens, Corinne Yitzhaki, Shlomo |
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Wodon, Quentin de la Briere, Benedicte Siaens, Corinne Yitzhaki, Shlomo |
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Wodon, Quentin |
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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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Mexico's PROGRESA : Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare |
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mexico's progresa : innovative targeting, gender focus and impact on social welfare |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2519958/mexicos-progresa-innovative-targeting-gender-focus-impact-social-welfare http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10396 |
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