Chapter 29. In Mexico, a Plan to Beat Poverty

29.1

According to the video, the oportunidades program gives:

Tax credits to fathers who are heads of their households.

Cash subsidies to poor mothers.

Tax credits to poor mothers.

Cash subsidies to fathers who are heads of their households.

What conditions are required of recipients of subsidies under the oportunidades program?

They must improve their family’s housing and children’s education.

They must improve their children’s nutrition and education.

They must improve their own education.

They must improve their family’s housing.

According to Santiago Levy, government subsidies often replace income that came from which source?

Street vending.

Women’s labor.

Children’s labor.

Begging.

According to the video, men ____ because ____.

Receive most of the subsidies; housing is generally registered under their name

Do not receive these subsidies; they are considered to be less trustworthy than women

Receive most of the subsidies; they tend to control the family’s finances

Do not receive these subsidies; women tend to control the family’s finances

In the video, which other countries have similar cash subsidy programs?

Brazil and Thailand.

Cambodia and Thailand.

Brazil and Cambodia.

Myanmar and Thailand.