Reclaiming Social Policy re-evaluates the importance of social policies in the shaping of well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances critical understanding of how these policies are constituted in a globalizing world. Written from a practitioner's perspective, the core concern of the book is the capacity for policy making required to protect groups from becoming excluded, promote inclusion, and avoid sharpening of trends towards marginalization. The book emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a normative and practical framework for supporting social policy making.

Rapid growth in the Chinese economy over the past three decades poses puzzles and challenges to neo-classical economic theory, as policies implemented during the reform process were often unorthodox. Although the Chinese experience has been widely studied, myths and questions about these reforms remain. To fill in the knowledge gap, and to inform a process of learning from China's development successes, this book features a series of case studies on the policy process of different initiatives, including rural industrialization, dual-track price reform, migration policy, village elections and fiscal reform. Uniquely, many of the authors of the case studies were deeply involved in these reforms, either through direct policymaking or through providing analytical and technical support that led to these policy changes. They provide a first-hand account of how the political processes occurred, how social and political entrepreneurs shaped the choices and sequences of various reforms, and how the rigidities and sometimes erroneous beliefs were overcome.

This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women's economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.

- Comprehensive examination of how labels such as 'The Poor, ' or 'Asylum Seeker' are created and applied and how these labels shape power relations in development and aid work- Authored by leading development practitioners and researchers from the Institute of Development Studies and including international case studies addressing gender, race, religion, poverty and power in various contexts- Hands-on recommendations for tackling stigmatizing labels and methods for creating new, empowering labels and constructive ways to frame development problemsWhat does it mean to be part of the mass known as "The Poor"? What visions are conjured up in our minds when someone is labeled Muslim? And what assumptions do we make about their needs, desirability, security and disposability? How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops these labels, what power do the labels carry and how do such labels affect how people are treated?This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labeled and categorized and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast international experience and current theory, the authors examine how labels are constituted and applied by governments and aid agencies. It also examines how power relations are amplified or set on collision courses by labeling, and how the labeled view themselves and often act contrary to their externally applied labels or, in some cases, accept the labels. Coverage includes analysis of labels in current development and aid practice in a number of contexts. Importantly, the authors provide suggestions for how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labeling, including howcounter-labeling might influence key concerns such as poverty reduction, human rights, race relations, and security.

Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.

This book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women's economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.

Les changements en matiere d'aide internationale et les defis souleves par les crises alimentaires, financieres et energetiques exigent un examen critique des conventions actuelles en matiere d'assistance et d'elaboration de politiques et de forums decisionnels en cooperation internationale. A la lumiere de la montee de pouvoirs emergents, une analyse de la maniere dont un ordre mondial en mutation transforme la nature de la cooperation pour le developpement s'impose. La promotion d'une croissance economique equitable et d'une reduction de la pauvrete exige une nouvelle comprehension de l'aide au developpement et une gouvernance, transparence, propriete et imputabilite optimales. L'avenir de la Cooperation Sud-Sud repose sur de nombreux facteurs, comme l'amelioration des moyens de communication et le partage des connaissances entre pays partenaires, l'adoption d'une approche analytique pour definir les biens publics regionaux et mondiaux, l'identification et l'evaluation des bonnes et des mauvaises pratiques et la fusion des priorites economiques et sociales. Au moyen d'etudes de cas, les auteurs proposent des approches novatrices pour promouvoir la Cooperation Sud-Sud et etablir des politiques de developpement international efficaces. Ce livre est publie en anglais. - This book presents novel approaches to further South South Cooperation (SSC) on a global scale. The evolving aid architecture and mounting development challenges demand an urgent and critical review of existing aid modalities, policy-making and forums for international cooperation. With the rise of emerging powers, we face an important question: ls the changing global order transforming the nature of development cooperation? Promoting equitable broad-based growth in order to alleviate poverty, calls for a new understanding of the principles of development assistance, good governance, transparency, ownership, and accountability. This book is published in English.

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a framework for supporting social policy making.

- Comprehensive examination of how labels such as 'The Poor, ' or 'Asylum Seeker' are created and applied and how these labels shape power relations in development and aid work- Authored by leading development practitioners and researchers from the Institute of Development Studies and including international case studies addressing gender, race, religion, poverty and power in various contexts- Hands-on recommendations for tackling stigmatizing labels and methods for creating new, empowering labels and constructive ways to frame development problemsWhat does it mean to be part of the mass known as "The Poor"? What visions are conjured up in our minds when someone is labeled Muslim? And what assumptions do we make about their needs, desirability, security and disposability? How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops these labels, what power do the labels carry and how do such labels affect how people are treated?This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labeled and categorized and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast international experience and current theory, the authors examine how labels are constituted and applied by governments and aid agencies. It also examines how power relations are amplified or set on collision courses by labeling, and how the labeled view themselves and often act contrary to their externally applied labels or, in some cases, accept the labels. Coverage includes analysis of labels in current development and aid practice in a number of contexts. Importantly, the authors provide suggestions for how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labeling, including howcounter-labeling might influence key concerns such as poverty reduction, human rights, race relations, and security.