Household Vulnerability and Conditional Cash Transfers Consumption Smoothing Effects of PROGRESA-Oportunidades in Rural Mexico, 2003−2007 /

• Main Author: Uchiyama, Naoko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Economics,
• Subjects: Econometrics.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.

This book empirically analyzes the vulnerability of poor households in rural areas of Mexico and the effects of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called PROGRESA-Oportunidades by adopting the two most recent sets of rural household panel data for 2003−2007. The period covered by this book...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Outlook of the Mexican Economy, Poverty, and Vulnerability
• Chapter 2 Determinants of the Recent Poverty Increase and Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico
• Chapter 3 Impacts of CCT and Rising Food Prices on Rural Household Consumption
• Chapter 4 Household Vulnerability and the CCT Within the Risk-Sharing Framework.