Rule of law basically, in the context of economic growth, advocates the right to development, and exercise of this right is significant in the fight of reducing poverty to improve the lives of citizens. Economic growth which results development encompasses change of the entire society in the...

This paper contributes to an on-going conversation between development studies (DS) and social policy (SP) as academic fields, particularly in the UK. Drawing on Andrew Abbott’s analysis of the social sciences as an evolving system of knowledge lineages (KLs) it reflects first on the status of...