Publication

This paper explores how politics and power affect pro-poor policy. It addresses the role that states play in promoting and implementing redistributive policies; how social actors affect these actions; and competing ideas about the role states should play in encouraging particular forms of development. The authors examine the challenge of implementing coherent policy, exploring problems of coordination, influence and capture. The paper considers ways in which dominant thinking about rights, governance and development have transformed the conditions under which governments and other agents design and implement pro-poor policy.