Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics : Reflecting on the World Bank Group's Early Systematic Country Diagnostics

Das, Maitreyi Bordia

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT;    SOCIAL INCLUSION;    JOBS;    SOCIAL MOBILIZATION;    EMPLOYMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7713
RP-ID  :  WPS7713

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The idea of social inclusion hasgarnered considerable attention, especially in the contextof two recent developments: the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals and the heightened attention to inequality. This paperreviews the manner and extent to which social inclusion isaddressed in the first 17 Systematic Country Diagnostics(SCDs), which are ex ante, country-level assessmentsconducted by the World Bank Group, ahead of the preparationof its Country Partnership Frameworks. In addition to thisprimary purpose, the paper fulfils three other purposes. Itallows for a broader reflection on the value of the socialinclusion construct in macro-level diagnostics; it takes theopportunity to develop and refine a methodology to assesssocial inclusion and finally, it positions the narrative onsocial inclusion into the ongoing discourse on poverty,shared prosperity, inequality and the thinking around theimplementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It istherefore, a refined articulation of the idea of socialinclusion in the context of global epistemological shifts