Progress Against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program

By S. Levy. 2006

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THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015, background): “The program is the first of its kind in the United States and is inspired by successful CCT programs in Central and South America (e.g., Progresa-Oportunidades in Mexico; Fizbein et al., 2009; Levy, 2006).”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, unknown): “Here, the great success story is Progresa in Mexico, which was scaled up and continued under two different administrations due in part to the positive results from REs evaluating Progresa (Levy, 2006).”
Fair Trade/Organic Coffee, Rural Livelihoods, and the "Agrarian Question": Southern Mexican Coffee Families in Transition (2011, unknown): “…of children (Rawlings & Rubio, 2005), and Procampo, an agricultural land-based subsidy that largely replaced the pre-NAFTA system of price supports (Levy, 2006; Lustig, 2001; Pastor & Wise 1997); Expansion of migration networks and labor opportunities within Mexico and in the United States…”
The diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the Americas (2011, background): “Both Mexican and Brazilian ministries have hosted visitors from other countries who wish to learn about their program (see, for example, Levy, 2006; SEDESOL, 2005; V Sousa, former Chief of International Technical Cooperation, Ministry of Social Development, Brazil, interview, Brasília, Brazil, 4…”
Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (2014, background): “…has shown that conditional cash transfers and expenditures (for education, for example given our results that education is important in reducing poverty) are effective safety nets and levers of poverty reduction and redistribution (see Levy, 2006; Kanbur, 2008; Anyanwu and Erhijakpor, 2010).”
Long-Term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Review of the Evidence (2019, background): “…re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com doi: 10.1093/wbro/lky005 34:119–159 D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /w bro/article-abstract/34/1/119/5492445 by M iddlebury C ollege user on 22 M ay 2019 Alimentación (PROGRESA), the Mexican CCT program begun in 1997 (Levy 2006).”
The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework (2009, methodology): “The first CCT programme, PROGRESA (Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition, now calledOportunidades), was launched in 1997 by theMexican government (Levy 2006).”
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico (2013, background): “These programs were operated by ten distinct ministries or agencies, and varied in coverage and size (Levy 2006).”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015, unknown): “Levy (2006), among others, argued that transfers targeted at informal workers discourage formalization.”
Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs be Conditioned to be Effective? The Impact of Conditioning Transfers on School Enrollment in Mexico (2011, background): “2 For example, see the work on PROGRESA summarized in Skoufias (2005) and Levy (2006), and on Nicaragua’s Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) found in Maluccio and Flores (2005).”