Abstract
In recent decades, approaches to social policy that were sensitive to development issues and contexts became relegated to a residual safety net approach.1 The dominant focus of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and much of the aid industry, supported by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approach of the United Nations (UN), centred on the poorest of the poor. Furthermore, it was assumed erroneously that the question of poverty could be solved without addressing issues of equity, social inclusion and the role of the state in fostering a developmental project for the benefit of all social groups. In the context of the global economic crisis, it has become imperative to break from this ‘global politics of poverty alleviation’ paradigm and (re)build developmental welfare states and a universal approach to social policy.
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Deacon, B. (2012). Shifting Global Social Policy Discourse and Governance in Times of Crisis. In: Utting, P., Razavi, S., Buchholz, R.V. (eds) The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002501_5
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