Tercer informe anual del gobierno de Flores

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 ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 57, No. 644, 2002: 583-588.

An Impact Evaluation of Agricultural Subsidies on Human Capital Development and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Rural Mexico

“…PROCAMPO covers 95 percent of the cultivated area in Mexico that had been planted in corn, beans, sorghum and wheat (SAGAR, 1998); this represents approximately 14 million hectares and almost three million producers a year. Annual payments are over US$1 billion which is 60 percent of the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture (Fox 2003). PROCAMPO is particularly important in the ejido (land reform) sector where 84 percent of ejidatarios participated in PROCAMPO and received payments for, on average, 5.2 hectares (Cord and Wodon, 1999).…”

“…In 2001 the Fox administration changed the name of the program to OPORTUNIDADES and expanded coverage to semi-urban and poor urban areas. The program budget reached US$1.9 billion in 2002, covering nearly 3 million rural households and over 1.2 million urban ones (Fox, 2003). Because PROGRESA conditions payment of transfers on school attendance and visits to health care facilities, it was expected and has been shown that the program had a significant impact on education attendance and health outcomes (Skoufias and McClafferty, 2001).…”