The paper addresses recent changes in Mexico's welfare policy and governments strategies designed to retain popular support in the context of economic deterioration. It discusses major interpretations of welfare policy orientations and reviews food and health policy objectives since 1980....

A comprehensive collection of the research and policy developments in civic service worldwide, this work provides an assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. It presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations...