In addition, social spending needs to be expanded, but also be made more efficient and better targeted to the most vulnerable groups. The capacity of social programmes to reach out to the poor has been extended, leading to significant progress in reducing poverty and inequality, especially over the period between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. In 2012 the coverage of Oportunidades, Mexico’s main anti-poverty programme, reached 5.4 million families, more than 20% of all families (SEDESOL, 2012).