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Evolving meanings of “the social” in the international development agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, Houghton St., LondonWC2 2AE, UK
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*Email: n.kabeer@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper argues that while social policy as an explicit aspect of policy discourse has relatively recent origins within the international development agenda, concerns with “the social” have featured from its very early days seeking to challenge the conflation between growth and development. The paper focuses on key international conferences and policy documents to analyse contestations over the meanings of “the social” within development policy discourse and their efforts to rethink its boundaries with “the economic”. It suggests that these contestations have helped to spell out the basic outlines of an alternative policy agenda in which concerns with “the social” have come to define both the means and ends of development.

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gendergrowthdevelopmentsocial policy
Type
Research Article
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 31 , Issue 2: Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges: Positioning Social Policy Between Development and Growth? , June 2015 , pp. 114 - 131
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Copyright © 2015 Taylor & Francis

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