Does social capital help the poor? - a synthesis of findings from the local level institutions studies in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, and Indonesia

By C. Grootaert. 2001

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The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017, unknown): “Supporting evidence for each of the foregoing arguments in this section has been amassed in a large body of empirical work, especially work on regional SC (Foley and Edwards 1999; Grootaert 2001; Krishna and Shrader 2000; Malecki 2012; Staber 2007; Tura and Harmaakorpi 2005).”
The Economic Returns of Immigrants’ Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands 1 (2010, background): “However, several scholars argue that one should also take into account the diversity of the background of the people involved, the so-called ‘heterogeneity argument’ (Sabatini 2005: 42-44; Grootaert 2002).”
Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles?: Social Networks in Transition - The Kyrgyz Republic (2004, unknown): “Comparative research in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, and Indonesia, for example, has shown that household involvement in associations or local networks improves their livelihoods, as well as access to credit and the ability to acquire assets (Grootaert 1999). In the same vein, this study emphasizes the im”
Social capital, governance and performance of Ethiopian coffee cooperatives (2012, background): “Theories of social capital provide important evidence that trust, reciprocity and networks play a key role in overcoming collective action constraints (Putnam et al. 1993, Coleman 1987, Grootaert 2001, Ostrom 1994, Woolcock 1998).”