Process-Policy and Outcome-Policy: Rethinking How to Address Poverty and Inequality
Process matters not just for diagnosing the causes of inequality, but also for how policy is shaped
Abstract
Process matters not just for diagnosing the causes of inequality, but also for how policy is shaped. 皇冠体育app dominant paradigms for policy-making 鈥� neoliberalism, neo-Keynesianism, and neo颅paternalism 鈥� largely address inequality via 鈥渙utcome-policies鈥� that manipulate the levers of government and, more recently, draw on randomized trials and 鈥渘udges鈥� to change behavior, in a manner that is not only easy to measure, but also easy to reverse. This commentary draws on the essays in this special issue of D忙dalus to make the case for 鈥渞eflectivism,鈥� which shifts structural inequalities in agency, power, social structure, empathy, and aspiration in an incremental manner that is more uncertain and difficult to measure, but that can result in more lasting change.
This is an output of the World Bank鈥檚 Strategic Research Program
Citation
Rao, Vijayendra 鈥淧rocess-Policy and Outcome-Policy: Rethinking How to Address Poverty and Inequality,鈥� Daedalus, Volume 148, Issue 3, Summer 2019, Pp: 181-190