Abstract:Public policies aimed at Mexico’s indigenous population traditionally viewed the communities themselves as their primary beneficiaries. Breaking with this convention, the anti-poverty programme known as Oportunidades, with its specific focus on supporting not communities but in fact discrete family units experiencing acute poverty, disregarded the specificities of the indigenous population and treated indigenous people as any other impoverished segment of Mexican society. (…)

Keywords:Ethnicity, perequisite, inclusion, Conditional Transfer Programmes, opportunities programme, Mexico
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Type/Issue:One Pager/173
ISSN:2318-9118

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