Recent events
Book Launch
New Frontiers of Social Policy: Social protection, Assets, Inequalities, and States
Date: Thursday 22nd of May 2008
Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, Room 1.69
Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy
Edited by Caroline Moser and Anis A. Dani
Inclusive States
Social Policy and Structural Inequalities
Edited by Anis A. Dani and Arjan de Haan
Institutional Pathways to Equity
Addressing Inequality Traps
Edited by Michael Walton, Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, and Arjan de Haan
Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest
Edited by Armando Barrientos & David Hulme
These four books, all either authored or edited by SED colleagues in BWPI and GURC, focus on different but interrelated conceptual and policy-relevant themes on the new frontiers of social policy that are highly relevant to development and poverty reduction debates. Each fills major gaps in knowledge and practice ten years after the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development as well as the World Development Reports on poverty, and on equity. They tackle themes such as the role of institutions and governance in addressing structural inequalities and the way in which inclusive states can confront them, the diverse poverty reduction strategies the poor adopt to accumulate assets through migration, housing and natural resource management, and the growing popularity of social protection as a policy response to reach the poor and poorest.