Our narrower obligations often blind us to larger social responsibilities. The moral claims
arising out of special relationships—family, friends, colleagues, and so on—always seem to …

28 Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest the 1930s to the 1960s, market failures were
used as the grounds for a considerable expansion of the state's economic roles, including …

We all acknowledge strong special responsibilities towards families, friends, clients, and
compatriots. The moral basis of these responsibilities is traditionally analyzed in terms of self …

Human rights define the most fundamental responsibilities of those who hold power. In the
cases of the Holocaust, or of the Rwandan massacres, we do not need a theory to tell us …

The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social
Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The …

Social protection emerged as a critical response to the 'safety nets' discourse of the late
1980s and early 1990s. In the World Development Report 1990, for example, safety nets …

Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have
been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and …

In the past decade or two, philosophies of social protection have shifted away from a nearly
exclusive focus on the subjective and the individual (eg autonomous choices, utility) and …

Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book
examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key …

Almost two decades after its mainstream outing in the 1994 UNDP Human Development
Report (HDR), the concept of human security continues to be a point of contention between …