President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has drastically revamped Mexico’s welfare system—distributing more money to more people. But development experts say the new programs overlook some of the country’s neediest families.

Mr. López Obrador’s leftist government has lifted overall welfare spending by about 20% compared with the previous administration, including payments to eight million elderly, apprenticeships for a million out-of-work youths, and money for a million university students and farmers. The handouts are popular in a country where the poor often felt overlooked.

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