Policy Planning and Poverty: Notes on a Mexican Case**This research was carried out by a group of anthropologists at The University of Texas at Austin in a project entitled “Decision Making in Culture,” funded by the National Science Foundation (GS-30563) and the Institute of Latin American Studies of The University of Texas. The author was principal investigator, and the other members of the research team were Jane Granskog, Gary G. Hendrix, Arthur D. Murphy, and Alex Stepick.