Abstract

ESPINOSA TRUJILLO, Marco Antonio; REYES DE LA CRUZ, Virginia Guadalupe; PEREZ VERA, Flor del Carmen  and  TORRES SOMBRA, Jesús. Programa Oportunidades y bienestar económico de los hogares beneficiarios de San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Región y sociedad [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.66, pp.5-22. ISSN 2448-4849.

The objective of this study is to determine the importance of the government cash transfers, through the social program known as Oportunidades, in the income level and the effect in the welfare of the beneficiary families, taking as a reference the community of San Bartolomé Quialana, located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It was found that 28.6 percent of the beneficiaries' income comes from that program. Assuming the removal of those transfers, the percentage of people without the capability to access the food basic supplies increases from 55.7 to 76.1 percent. A 10 percent increase in transfers does not have a significant effect on the welfare level. In comparison, the reduction of the same percentage value results in an increase of poverty to 87.5 percent in relation to a minimum welfare line.

Keywords : transfers; welfare line; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke coefficient; welfare; development; rural community.

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