Role of Social Capital in Development (eBook, PDF)

An Empirical Assessment
Redaktion: Grootaert, Christiaan

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Produktbeschreibung

Previously the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - in programs of poverty alleviation and development has risen to considerable prominence. Although development practitioners have long suspected that social capital does affect the efficiency and quality of most development processes, this book provides the rigorous empirical results needed to confirm that impression and translate it into effective and informed policymaking. It is based on a large volume of collected data, relying equally on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to establish approaches for measuring social capital and its impact. The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058356
• Artikelnr.: 38201847

Autorenporträt

Christiaan Grootaert is Lead Economist in the Social Development Department at the World Bank, and Manager of the Social Capital Initiative. His research centres on the measurement and analysis of poverty, risk and vulnerability, education and labour markets, child labour, and the role of institutions and social capital in development, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Recent publications include The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (with H. Patrinos) and Poverty and Social Assistance in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (with J. Braithwaite and B. Milanovic). He is co-author of the World Development Report 2000-2001: Attacking Poverty, and has contributed articles to various journals, including the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, World Development and Journal of African Economies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Robert D. Putnam; Introduction and overview Christiaan Grootaert
and Thierry van Bastelaer; Part I. Social Capital at the Micro and Macro
Levels: A Conceptual Discussion and Review: 1. Social capital and poverty:
a microeconomic perspective Paul Collier; 2. Social capital, growth, and
poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence Stephen Knack; Part II. The
Impact of Social Capital on Development: 3. Mapping and measuring social
capital through assessment of collective action to conserve and develop
watersheds in Rajasthan, India Anirudh Krishna and Norman Uphoff; 4. Social
capital and the firm: evidence from agricultural traders in Madagascar
Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten; 5. How do participation and social
capital affect community-based water projects? Evidence from central Java,
Indonesia Jonathan Isham and Satu Kähkönen; 6. Does social capital increase
participation in voluntary solid waste management? Evidence from Dhaka,
Bangladesh Sheoli Pargal, Daniel Gilligan, and Mainul Huq; Part III. The
Creation and Transformation of Social Capital: 7. The impact of development
assistance on social capital: evidence from Kenya Mary Kay Gugerty and
Michael Kremer; 8. Induced social capital and federations of the rural poor
in the Andes Anthony J. Bebbington and Thomas F. Carroll; 9. Social capital
and social cohesion: case studies from Cambodia and Rwanda Nat J. Colletta
and Michelle L. Cullen; 10. Ethnicity, capital formation, and conflict:
evidence from Africa Robert H. Bates and Irene Yackovlev I; 11. Measuring
impact and drawing policy implications Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry van
Bastelaer.