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This paper explores how social policies be used to enhance social capacities for economic development without eroding the intrinsic values of the social ends that policymakers purport to address. The author argues that this requires rethinking social policy away from its conception as a residual category of safety nets that merely counteract policy failures or developmental disasters. The paper concludes that social policy should be conceived as involving social development concerns and as a key instrument working in tandem with economic policy to ensure equitable and socially sustainable development.