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In Chapter 10 we emphasized that social policy is indistinguishable from development policy in general. In Chapter 11 we stressed the importance of reversing the decline in average living standards and achieving sustained growth. The neéd to generate employment and ensure that the benefits of growth are widely distributed is another theme, as is the potential of rural development to contribute rapidly to a rise in income.

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  1. Michael Kaser and Santosh Mehrotra, The Central Asian Economies After Independence ( London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1992 ), p. 35.

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  2. See Keith Griffin and Terry McKinley, Implementing a Human Development Strategy ( London: Macmillan, 1994 ), pp. 90–5

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  3. Ehtisham Ahmad, Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen (eds), Social Security in Developing Countries ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991 ).

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Griffin, K. (1996). Social Protection. In: Studies in Globalization and Economic Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372139_12

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