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Drawing upon both conceptual and empirical evidence, this volume argues the case for the centrality of social policy in development, focusing particularly on the message that social policy needs to be closely intertwined with economic policy. It is argued that social policy can provide the crucial link between economic development poverty eradication and equity. This volume is a significant contribution to thinking about social policy in a development context.

"Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades is a new child development text that presents a contemporary understanding of development today. Written by an active researcher, this text is informed by the importance of socio-cultural context, the interconnectedness of developmental domains, and a focus on contemporary research. This textbook adopts the familiar structure of presenting a chronological approach that structures domains of development under periods of development, meaning that periods of development (prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, etc.) fit within domains of development (physical, language, cognitive, social, emotional). An introductory section lays a foundation with theoretical frameworks and discipline-relevant constructs (continuity, stability, sensitive periods). The book provides three thematic features that collectively make it unique to the field and aim to enrich the thinking of students and instructors alike. These are (1) developmental cascades; (2) the socio-cultural contexts of development; and (3) the inclusion of contemporary research in the field"--

ABSTRACTThe issue of care has been the subject of extensive scholarly debate with reference to the advanced industrialized countries and their welfare regimes. Economic restructuring in the developing world has raised feminist concerns about social reproduction more broadly, and women's increasing burdens of unpaid care work in particular. While the present moment may not be marked by a generalized care crisis, systems of care provision are under strain in some contexts and for some social groups. Furthermore, care has emerged, or is emerging, as a legitimate subject of public debate and policy on the agendas of some civil society actors, developing country governments and international organizations. An increasing number of governments are experimenting with new ways of responding to care needs in their societies. However, these have been insufficiently recognized and analysed — a lacuna that the present collection of papers seeks to address. In an increasingly unequal world, where gender inequalities intersect with ever‐widening income inequalities, and where the options for securing good care are limited for the socially disadvantaged, the failure to socialize the costs of care will feed into and exacerbate existing inequalities.

AbstractThis chapter reviews U.S. and other Western researchers' treatment of issues affecting women in evaluations of the impacts of international development assistance. In most cases, the evaluations do not adopt a specifically feminist approach but rather a women‐in‐development (WID) or, more recently, a gender approach. The authors discuss the extent to which these approaches address feminist research concerns and how a more explicitly feminist approach could strengthen the evaluation design.

Examines the AIDS/HIV crisis in Africa from a development perspective, focusing on the biological, social, behavioral, & economic factors driving the epidemic & the policy responses to it from various actors. It is concluded that Africa is the world region least able to cope with this epidemic, & the one that will be most devastated by its outcomes; specific social, economic, demographic, & international relations impacts are assessed, drawing on current & projected statistical data from international organizations. 3 Tables. K. Hyatt Stewart

Much of the debate on the modernisation of the common property
regimes deals with the problem of the rationality of these regimes.
Justification for the policy to be followed in planning change for such
arrangements is given according to the divergent view points of
development scientists on the subject This paper advocates rethinking of
some of the fundamental concepts involved in the examination of the
contexts where external intervention is to take place for the purposes
of development, if a meaningful inter-disciplinary approach to
development is to emerge. It invokes Godelier's treatise on the historic
and social logic of real, rather than formal rationality, to highlight
the bias inherent within, and limitedness of, the general understanding
of the concept of formal rationality, or its focused, rather than
holistic treatment in socio-historic terms. The case of the Chaprote
forest in the Nagar valley of Northern Pakistan is presented to
illustrate the historical and cultural rationality of traditional
communal arrangements from the local consumption and conservation points
of view, and the functioning of a logic within such arrangements which
is relative and specific to the context in question. The variance
between the thrust of external intervention, and the local potentials
for managing and exploiting local resources is thus emphasised. Some
recommendations for developing traditional regimes within the local and
larger socio-historical context are made in conclusion.