摘要：PROGRESA provides Mexican families living in extreme poverty access to opportunities for meeting their basic education, health and nutritional needs. The program achieves this through provision of cash grants and nutritional supplements linked to regularly scheduled clinic visits and attendance at health lectures; and provision of cash grants and school supplies linked to children’s school attendance through primary and secondary levels. With the transfers corresponding to on average 19.5% of the income of poor households (Hoddinott et al. 2000), they are a substantial benefit to these households in rural communities where the program operates.
