MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 02962cam a22003254a 4500
001 2005006221
003 DLC
005 20060109142105.0
008 050302s2005 dcua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005006221
020 $a0896291421 (alk. paper)
020 $a0896297438 (CD-ROM)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-mx---
050 00 $aHC140.P6$bS58 2005
082 00 $a362.5/56/0972$222
100 1 $aSkoufias, Emmanuel.
245 10 $aPROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico /$cEmmanuel Skoufias.
260 $aWashington, DC :$bInternational Food Policy Research Institute,$c2005.
300 $axiv, 84 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm. +$e1 CD-ROM.
490 1 $aResearch report ;$v139
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 81-84).
505 0 $aPROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico -- Executive summary -- Background and program description -- Description of the educational benefits and program requirements -- Description of the health and nutrition component -- Primary health care services -- Nutrition and health education -- Supply of health services -- Nutritional supplement -- PROGRESA and benefits from other programs -- Size of monetary transfers received by PROGRESA beneficiary households -- Scope of evaluation -- PROGRESA seen through an economic lens -- An economic model of human capital investment within households -- The conditionality of cash transfers -- Additional considerations and topics in the evaluation of PROGRESA -- Synergy -- Fertility -- Intra-household resource allocation, power and status of women within the household -- Incentive effects and impact on poverty -- Community and general equilibrium effects -- The experimental design and information sources used to evaluate PROGRESA -- Evaluation tools/information sources -- An evaluation of PROGRESA's targeting and its impact on poverty -- Perceptions of stakeholders regarding the selection of beneficiary households -- Summary of the methods used to evaluate the impact of PROGRESA -- A summary of the findings of the impact evaluation and a cost analysis of the program -- Impact of PROGRESA on school enrollment -- Methodology -- The impact of PROGRESA on health, nutrition, and health-care use -- Methodologies -- Impact of PROGRESA's monetary transfers on household consumption -- Impact of PROGRESA on women's status, and household relations -- Methodology -- Cost analysis of PROGRESA -- Methodology -- Conclusions and future policy considerations.
650 0 $aRural poor$xGovernment policy$zMexico.
610 20 $aPrograma de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (Mexico City, Mexico)$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aPoverty$xGovernment policy$zMexico.
651 0 $aMexico$xSocial policy.
830 0 $aResearch report (International Food Policy Research Institute) ;$v139.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006221.html