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Global Social Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1, 19-28 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1468018105050118

From ‘Safety Nets’ Back to ‘Universal Social Provision’

Is the Global Tide Turning?

Bob Deacon

University of Sheffield, UK, b.deacon{at}sheffield.ac.uk

This short article draws upon a number of recent reports from several international organizations to argue the case that, at least at the level of discourse, the tide has turned from the period in the 1990s when a targeted and means tested safety net future for welfare policy especially in the context of development was being constructed. Now even within the World Bank there is some evidence that the case for a universal approach to social welfare provision is again being recognized. This shift suggests that one locus of the struggle for the future of national and international social policy continues to be the international epistemic community of social policy analysts working for and advising international agencies.

Key Words: global social policy • international organizations • safety nets • universalism


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