This series New Frontiers of Social Policy aims to promote social development through systematic attention to the underlying social context and the social outcomes of development interventions and public policy. It compels the reader to think of social policy in terms of increasing access to...

Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps, and transitions by Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton. Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced? By Rachel Sabates. Beneath the categories:...

Orissa has gradually become India's poorest state, in terms of proportion of people living below the poverty line, and with much slower improvements in human development indicators. These disparities do not exist because of a lack of effort to address them; both the regional and group...