Designing a programme to support smallholder agriculture in Mexico: Lessons from PROCAMPO and Oportunidades

Development Policy Review

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-642

  Winters, Paul ^a,b   Davis, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Cash transfers; Mexico; Opportunidades; PROCAMPO; Rural development; Smallholders

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; POLICY REFORM; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POLICY; SMALLHOLDER;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 68549092784     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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