Conditional cash transfers and agricultural production: Lessons from the oportunidades experience in Mexico

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-67

  Todd, Jessica Erin ^a   Winters, Paul C ^a   Hertz, Tom ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HUMAN CAPITAL; POVERTY DETERMINANT; PUBLIC SPENDING; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 72149125029     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380903197945     Document Type: Article

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