A policy designed to favour some deprived region or minority and to redress, at least in part, uneven development. Policies of positive discrimination have been criticized for treating the effects of inequality rather than tackling its causes. Other criticisms made are that not all of the minority or region needs help, and that many deprived people are outside the catchment area. Nonetheless, the EU, for example, still uses schemes of positive discrimination, through the European Regional Development Fund; see Roberts (2003) Prog. Planning 59, 1. Bosher et al. (2007) Dev. & Change 38, 4 find examples of positive discrimination in Andra Pradesh, India.