Social capital: implications for development theory, research, and policy

By M. Woolcock, D. Narayan. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development (2008, background): “Similar definitions can be found in the literature: 'Social capital refers to the norms and networks that enable people to act collectively' (Woolcock and Narayan 2000).”
• About Gender Differences and the Social Environment in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions (2016, background): “Social capital includes both strong ties (among members of a family or ethnic group) and weak ties (Woolcock and Narayan 2000).”
• Regional variations in entrepreneurial cognitions: Start-up intentions of university students in Spain (2011, background): “Both strong ties (among members of a family or ethnic group) and weak ties are complementary for an efficient development of social capital (Woolcock and Narayan, 2000).”
• Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey (2016, background): “Other authors, such as Barkham (1994) and Portes (1998), highlight the importance of entrepreneurs’ social capital, i.e., the ability of actors to take advantage of their social structures, networks, collaborations and ties (Woolcock & Narayan, 2000).”
• Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital (2002, background): “There has been some debate over the precise definition and measure of social capital (Woolcock and Narayan, 2000).”
• Social capital and soil conservation: evidence from the Philippines ∗ (2005, background): “…capital’ has generated a new, cross-disciplinary interest in the role of community norms, networks, trust, reciprocity, and collective action in a wide range of fields, including economic development (Woolcock and Narayan 2000) and environmental management (Pretty and Ward 2001; Pretty 2003).”
• Social Capital and Natural Resource Management (2007, background): “More generally, social capital in multiethnic societies does not always play the role of a “glue” sticking people together but may rather be a source of tensions between other groups (Bates, 1999; Daubon & Saunders, 2002; Pantoja, 1999; Woolcock & Narayan, 2000).”
• Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “It is the different combinations of bonding and networking social capital that allow communities to confront poverty and vulnerability, resolve disputes, and take advantage of new opportunities (Woolcock and Narayan 2000).”
• Social Capital: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Sustainable Community Development? (2010, background): “Woolcock and Narayan (2000) argue that while localized, bonding social capital operates as effective defensive strategies against poverty, the necessary condition for real development entails a shift to other, looser networks.”