Talk:Oportunidades

Oportunidades is a heavily modified version of Progresa, and Progresa is a heavily modified version of Solidaridad. In a sense, though they are each loosely based on the other, each is also substantive enough to be considered different. Therefore, Oportunidades was created in 2002, and not 1997. Hari Seldon 07:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Origins and history

I had the chance to skim this work:

• Peck, J.; Theodore, N. (2015). Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-4408-1.

I offer a quick summary:

CCT programs have their intellectual roots in the World Bank in 1991. Oportunidades hid its roots in World Bank and Bolsa Família, because the Mexican government was reluctant to be seen as using international institutions to fund and shape poverty policy from 1995-2001. The origins of Oportunidades were intentionally obfuscated and it was consistently referred to as a homegrown initiative for public relations reasons both in its own country, which would resent IMF-imposed structural adjustment, and in the discourse of international institutions like the World Bank, which wanted to act as if they were spreading best practices developed by others rather than imposing their own preferred policies.

That's a very rough first draft, and I recommend a more careful reading of the source before it is added to this article. These claims seem significant and interesting. Daask (talk) 21:25, 12 November 2023 (UTC)