Social policies play a critical role in the transformation of emerging economies. This paper discusses this with reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does not pay much attention to social policy or regards it...

International development assistance - what Arjan de Haan calls the aid industry - continues to be critical for overcoming the world's development challenges, perhaps more so than ever given the global realities of climate change and the Covid pandemic. But how does this industry actually work?...