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When in 1999 I proposed to the board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) a research agenda on ‘Social Policy in a Development Context’, Frances Stewart was then a member of the board. A question was raised as to why context was in the singular form. I argued that we wanted to examine the role of social policy where economic development was intentionally on the agenda. We also wanted to examine how social policy could be a transformative or developmental tool without compromising its intrinsic value. Stewart was one of the strongest supporters of this new programme, which a chairman of the board was later to label the institute’s ‘flagship’ research programme. The research agenda itself was inspired by the Copenhagen Social Summit held in 1995, whose resolution insisted that social development and economic development are not separable but mutually constitutive and that, although the situations of developing countries and developed countries differ, social issues in each revolve around the same fundamental matters of economic welfare, equity and social justice. One implication of this is that conversations between the literatures on social development and economic development strategies in developing countries on the one hand, and those on welfare regimes and social policy in developed countries on the other can contribute to the construction of a single analytical framework for the shared agenda of human development.
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Mkandawire, T. (2011). Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap. In: FitzGerald, V., Heyer, J., Thorp, R. (eds) Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306721_7
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