Meeting emerging global policy challenges : positioning social policy between development and growth?

This special issue combines contributions to a series of collaborative workshops and conference symposia of the UK Social Policy Association, the UK Development Studies Association and the Indian Social Policy Initiative held at the University of Bath (26-27 April 2013), the University of Birmingham (16 November 2013), O.P. Jindal Global University (24-25 March 2014) and the University of Sheffield (14-16 July 2014) asking: What is the Role of Social Policies in Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges and What Can Social Policy and International Development Studies Learn from Each Other?