Why Social Policy is Condemned to a Residual Category of Safety Nets and What to Do About it

Abstract

as well as participants in seminars sponsored by the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, Cornell University, Duke University, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, the World Bank, and the Brazilian Center for Applied Research (CEBRAP) in São Paulo. Special thanks to UNRISD and Thandika Mkandawire for supporting the larger paper, and for helpful comments on an earlier draft at a seminar on the topic of social policy that it sponsored in Sweden. I gratefully acknowledge support for the field research that contributed partly to the formulation of my thoughts in this chapter from the Brazilian Bank of the Northeast (BN), through the MIT/BN project, and to the stimulating discussions with Bank managers and staff.