This book highlights two key challenges for social policy. First, policy design needs to take into account the weaknesses of basic state functions in many developing countries, since these have important ramifications for social policy outcomes. Second, in most developing countries social structures marked by historical rooted structural inequalities pose significant challenges to the provision…
This book tackles the relationship between equity and development, the place of institutions in determining these relationships, and the conditions under which particular institutional arrangements can either block or promote transitions toward more equitable forms of development. The book as a whole speaks directly to current discussions on inequity, poverty and growth and will contribute to t…
This book is particularly, although not exclusively, relevant to those concerned with the one – third of the words population that still depends on the informal economy for its livelihood. By making the case for an asset – based social policy, it moves well beyond social welfare palliatives for needy households toward public actions that give people the means the opportunities to accumulate…