num_pages: 166
description: " In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty. This book presents a case study of Progresa-Oportunidades, focusing on the main factors that have contributed to the program's sustainability, policies that have allowed it to operate at the national level, and future challenges. "
language: English
title: Progress against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program
titlecomplete: Progress against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Brookings Institution Press