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Why Social Policy is Condemned to a Residual Category of Safety Nets and What to Do About it

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Social Policy in a Development Context

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I would like to start by congratulating UNRISD for leading a badly needed initiative to re-think social policy in a way that does not condemn it to the residual category of ‘safety nets’. There are several stubborn causes of this problem, including the ideological one, but I choose to dwell on four that are less obvious and that also lend themselves to suggestions for a UNRISD research agenda.

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Tendler, J. (2004). Why Social Policy is Condemned to a Residual Category of Safety Nets and What to Do About it. In: Mkandawire, T. (eds) Social Policy in a Development Context. Social Policy in a Development Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523975_6

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