Governments may be fearful of being seen to support migrants too strongly, perhaps because most projects - in Mexico anyway - are in communities which already have superior resources. But it holds out hope and promise - and a need for replication. In Senegal, again like several other West African countries where structural adjustment programmes were implemented in the 1980s and 1990s, the state has withdrawn from all social sectors while privatising public enterprises, at a time when many medicines doubled in price.