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Poverty Alleviation from the Margins: Mexico's IMSS-COPLAMAR as a Challenge to Global Health and Economic Models, 1979–1989.

A 1970s and 1980s poverty alleviation program, IMSS-COPLAMAR, challenged universal definitions of poverty as well as health models for rural areas while proffering a distinctly Mexican alternative. Yet this solution, broadly painting rural dwellers as marginados (marginalized), focused on need-based...

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Published in:Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 673 - 705
Main Author: Soto Laveaga, Gabriela
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Nov2022
Subjects:
Poverty reduction
Social marginality
Public health
Social isolation
Cultural pluralism
Health programs
International organization
Neoliberalism
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