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The key features of four scenarios, with particular reference to health and obesity, are outlined in this document. Each scenario has been anchored in clearly identified features of the present.

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This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, Thandika Mkandawire discusses the forces behind the shift from universalism toward selectivity in using social policies to combat poverty in t