El Programa Oportunidades y Bolsa Familia Origen, desarrollo y operación desde una perspectiva municipal

Abstract

Taking into account the municipal scale, this paper describes the origins, development and operation of conditional cash transference programs that target poverty in Mexico and Brazil: Oportunidades in Mexico and Bolsa Familia in Brazil. The different stages of these programs and the role that the municipalities play in their definition, show us a different type of federalism in each case. It is not a mere coincidence that the origins of Oportunidades is the technocratic pinnacle of a government that promotes a New Federalism and that Bolsa Familia derives from a municipal innovation effort.