This report on school attendance patterns adopts the same conceptual framework as a previous report on enrollment, and explores whether the Progresa program had an additional impact on variation in school attendance rates in the school year 1998/9

El presente documento analiza el impacto de Progresa sobre el trabajo y la distribución del tiempo de los beneficiarios. En Progresa, la mayoría de los beneficios están relacionados con la asistencia regular de los niños a la escuela.

Este informe intenta responder las siguientes preguntas: · ¿Cómo se siente la gente en las comunidades Progresa acerca del sistema de identificación de beneficiarios? ¿Se considera que es justo en cuanto a su concepto y aplicación?

El objetivo de este informe es examinar el impacto de Progresa sobre la condición de la mujer, y en las relaciones al interior del hogar.

The recently introduced PROGRESA program in Mexico can be interpreted as having multiple objectives, namely, (i) the alleviation of current poverty through the transfer of cash payments to poor households, and (ii) encouraging the accumulation of

Increasing human capital investments in children is considered to be among the most effective ways of alleviating poverty and encouraging growth in developing countries.

In this paper, we investigate the impact of a unique anti-poverty program in Mexico on health.

El presente análisis tiene la ventaja de que se realiza bajo un diseño aleatorizado y controlado. En 1998, 506 de las 50,000 localidades donde opera Progresa se asignaron en dos grupos: uno de control y otro de tratamiento.

En este documento se presenta una evaluación de los efectos de Progresa, a nivel de la comunidad, para lograrlo se empleó información, a nivel de los hogares, de las distintas rondas de la muestra de evaluación del Programa (Encuesta de Evaluación

En el presente documento se hace un resumen sobre la evaluación del desempeño operativo de Progresa.

In August 1997 the Mexican government introduced a key component of its overall development and poverty alleviation strategy, the PROGRESA program, in the most marginal rural areas of the country.

The objective of this report to examine the impact of PROGRESA on women’s status and intrahousehold relations.

This report analyzes the impact of PROGRESA on work and time allocation of its beneficiaries. In PROGRESA, the majority of benefits are linked to children’s school attendance.

In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to “determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design.” This document summarizes the findings con

Much of the debate over whether or not developing countries gain from regional trade agreements (RTA's) has focused on two characteristics that are common to developing countries: their relatively high tariffs and their high trade dependencie

One important goal of PROGRESA is to raise the real income of program beneficiaries.

PROGRESA’s objective is to provide Mexican families living in extreme poverty access to opportunities for meeting their basic education, health and nutritional needs.

This report provides an evaluation of the community level effects of PROGRESA using household level data from various rounds of PROGRESA's evaluation sample (the ENCEL surveys).