Progress Against Poverty

Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program

By: Santiago Levy

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In 1997, Mexico launched a revolutionary program to combat poverty. Initially named Progresa and now known as Oportunidades, it has become an important example of a sustainable and scalable poverty reduction strategy in the developing world. In Progress against Poverty, Santiago Levy-the main architect of Progresa-Oportunidades-offers his unique perspective on the development of the program, the reasons for its success, the challenges it faces, and its applicability in other nations. Its approach is innovative: the program dispenses money directly to poor households-a change from the traditional method of providing subsidized necessities through intermediaries. However, the cash transfers are contingent on the recipients' investments in their own health, nutrition, and education.

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"Santiago Levy is well placed to write about Mexico's flagship anti-poverty programme, PROGRESA/Oportunidades. As its principal architect, and as minister with responsibility for its implementation, he was among the pioneers of a new approach to poverty relief known today by the acronym CCT, or Conditional Cash Transfers. Levy provides an insider's account of the origins and evolution of his programme...[his] book is a welcome contribution to the debate over the effectiveness of current approaches to poverty." -Maxine Molyneux, Institutte for the Study of the Americas, University of London, Journal of Latin American Studies

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Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Program Background	p. 4
Program Objectives and Scope	p. 21
Program Results	p. 33
Program Institutional Design	p. 81
Program Perspectives	p. 131
Conclusions	p. 145
References	p. 151
Index	p. 161
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