How Can the Financing of Social Services be Made Pro-Poor?

Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra

Chapter 4 in Financing Social Policy, 2009, pp 89-114 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The mainstream view of development posits that if economic growth is maximized, the levels of poverty will be reduced, and this will result in increases in welfare (in a more or less automatic fashion). Thus, much policy making occurs under a leader/follower hierarchy model, where macroeconomic policy is determined first, while social policy is derivative and left to address the social consequences of economic policies (Atkinson 1999). This separation of the ‘economic’ from the ‘social’ discourse is inherent to the Washington consensus and the neoclassical theory which underpins it. Moreover, under this view, only certain policies ensure economic growth. In contrast, social policy can and should be understood as ‘collective interventions in the economy to influence the access to and the incidence of adequate and secure livelihoods and income’ (Mkandawire 2004: 1).

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; International Monetary Fund; Income Poverty; Gross National Product; User Charge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230244337_4

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