Here are some questions to review for the Progresa/ Oportunidades Program examined in the end-of chapter case study:
a. What is the Progress/Oportunidades Program, and what does it try to accomplish?
b. How does it try to do so-what are the key program features and innovations?
c. Why make transfers conditional? What are the possible benefits as well as drawbacks?
d. Specifically, how does Progress a work to improve nutrition (with its "four pathways")?
e. Specifically, how does Progress a work to improve education?
f. What were the features of the original evaluation?