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Social Policy in a Development Context: Introduction

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  • Thandika Mkandawire

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Both the contemporary normative discourse and the emerging consensus on development insists on putting in place social institutions (including states) that are developmental (in that they sustain high rates of growth and the structural transformation of economies), that are socially inclusive and that are sanctioned by democratic processes that fully respect the human rights of all citizens. Such an understanding can be surmised from the many resolutions of major international conferences of the 1990s and is reflected at the national level in struggles for democracy, equity and the clamour for bringing development back onto the economic policy agenda. On a more theoretical level, this understanding of development has been succinctly stated by Amartya Sen (1999) in his Development as Freedom in which he argues that economic development, equity and democracy are mutually constitutive.

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  • Thandika Mkandawire, 2004. "Social Policy in a Development Context: Introduction," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Thandika Mkandawire (ed.), Social Policy in a Development Context, chapter 1, pages 1-33, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-52397-5_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523975_1
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    1. Gabriel Asante, 2023. "The Politics of Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Configurational Approach to Fee-Free Policies at the High School Level," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(3), pages 21582440231, July.
    2. Kate Meagher, 2022. "Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID‐19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(6), pages 1200-1229, November.
    3. Maha Abdelrahman, 2022. "COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(6), pages 1151-1176, November.
    4. Salleh, Alia, 2023. "Does the culture of property normalise eviction and demolition? The case of Kampung Sungai Baru, Kuala Lumpur," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 118023, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Meagher, Kate, 2022. "Crisis narratives and the African paradox: African informal economies, COVID-19 and the decolonization of social policy," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117263, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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