The Role of Social Capital in Development Hardback: An Empirical Assessment - Hardcover

Grootaert; Van Bastelaer; Puttnam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521812917 ISBN 13: 9780521812917

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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 programmes, facilitating rural development, access to goods and services, and political stability.

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Review of the hardback: 'Development and social capital are ... correctly given an empirical assessment that allows the reader to gain an accurate understanding of the issues.' Oxfam Development Resources

Biografía del autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521812917
• ISBN 13: 9780521812917
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384