Program
Social Research Center (SRC)
Author's Department
Social Research Center (SRC)
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
A New Framing of Social Policies
Publication Date
11-24-2019
Abstract
This issue paper argues for the need for governance and public policy reforms that are anchored on well-being equity, and that adopt fairness in the social patterns of well-being as a measure of development and social success. Well-being equity is defined as: “The absence of systematic, unnecessary and preventable differences in well-being across groups in society classified according to a social stratum”. The definition recognizes that not all social differences in well-being are inequitable. The equity definition is confined to differences that are shaped by causes that are not distributed fairly across social groups. A clear example of inequity is a distribution of well-being that shows systematic differences across geographic or ethnic classifications. Such differences do not lend themselves easily to explanations of generic geographic or ethnic differences. Such differences are more readily explained by differential allocations of opportunities by geographic areas, or differentiated treatment by ethnic compositions.
First Page
1
Last Page
11
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Rashad, H.
(2019). A New Framing of social Policies: Why, What and How?. A New Framing of Social Policies, 1–11.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/4972
MLA Citation
Rashad, Hoda
"A New Framing of social Policies: Why, What and How?." A New Framing of Social Policies, 2019, pp. 1–11.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/4972