Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics : Reflecting on the World Bank Group's Early Systematic Country Diagnostics
The idea of social inclusion has garnered considerable attention, especially in the context of two recent developments: the Sustainable Development Goals and the heightened attention to inequality. This paper reviews the manner and extent to which...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26507284/social-inclusion-macro-level-diagnostics-reflecting-world-bank-groups-early-systematic-country-diagnostics http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24630 |
| Summary: | The idea of social inclusion has
garnered considerable attention, especially in the context
of two recent developments: the Sustainable Development
Goals and the heightened attention to inequality. This paper
reviews the manner and extent to which social inclusion is
addressed in the first 17 Systematic Country Diagnostics
(SCDs), which are ex ante, country-level assessments
conducted by the World Bank Group, ahead of the preparation
of its Country Partnership Frameworks. In addition to this
primary purpose, the paper fulfils three other purposes. It
allows for a broader reflection on the value of the social
inclusion construct in macro-level diagnostics; it takes the
opportunity to develop and refine a methodology to assess
social inclusion and finally, it positions the narrative on
social inclusion into the ongoing discourse on poverty,
shared prosperity, inequality and the thinking around the
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is
therefore, a refined articulation of the idea of social
inclusion in the context of global epistemological shifts |
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