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The role of social capital in development : an empirical assessment /

Social capital can be defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, complemented by the attitudes, norms and values that underlie them. This book looks at how social capital can contribute to poverty alleviation and development programs, facilitating rural development, ac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grootaert, Christiaan, 1950-, Van Bastelaer, Thierry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and maps; FIGURES; MAP; Tables; Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction and overview; The scope, forms, and channels of social capital; Is it capital?; Social capital: from concept to measurement; The structure of the book; REFERENCES; 1 Social capital and poverty: a microeconomic perspective; 2 Social capital, growth, and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence; 3 Mapping and measuring social capital through assessment of collective action to conserve and develop watersheds ...