New Frontiers of Social Policy

In many developing countries, the mixed record of state effectiveness, market imperfections and persistent structural inequities has undermined the effectiveness of social policy. To overcome these constraints, social policy needs to move beyond conventional social service approaches toward development’s goals of equitable opportunity and social justice. This series has been created to promote debate among the development community, policy makers, and academia and to broaden understanding of social policy challenges in developing country contexts.

The books in the series are linked to the World Bank’s Social Development Strategy. The goal of the strategy is the transformation of institutions to make them more accessible, responsive and accountable, and ultimately the transformation of subjects and beneficiaries into citizens capable of claiming their rights and fulfilling their responsibilities. Themes in this series will include equity and development, assets and livelihoods, and citizenship and rights-based social policy, as well as the social dimensions of infrastructure and climate change.

• Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps, edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton
  
• Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities, edited by Anis Dani and Arjan de Haan
  
• Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy, edited by Caroline Moser and Anis A. Dani