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Zukunftsperspektive Familie und Wirtschaft : Vom Wert von Familie für Wirtschaft, Staat und Gesellschaft.
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ISBN: 3929304422 Year: 2002 Publisher: Grafschaft Vektor

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Social capital and economic development : well-being in developing countries
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ISBN: 1840646993 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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Bürgergesellschaft, soziales Kapital und lokale Politik : theoretische Analysen und empirische Befunde
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ISBN: 381003424X Year: 2002 Publisher: Opladen Leske und Budrich

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Social capital : critical perspectives on community and Bowling alone
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ISBN: 0814798144 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): New York University press

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Schooling and social capital in diverse cultures
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ISBN: 0762308176 1849508852 Year: 2002 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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One of the most seductive topics in recent years is the field of social capital - the webs of trust, mutual obligation, and cultural knowledge that flow through local information - that yield resources in human-scale associations of individuals. When we ask about the implications for children's learning and performance in the school institution, however, the construct quickly becomes slippery to hold. The 2001 volume provides five papers that offer empirical evidence on the nature and life of social capital across diverse ethnic groups and cultural settings. These fresh studies delve into the resources embedded in Latino and Asian-American peer groups, how immigrant parents' networks and norms variably push their children to achieve in school, and how teenagers' involvement in ethnic-rooted churches contribute social capital. The volume includes three commentaries, authored by David Baker, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, and Raymond Wong, and a review chapter by the editors.

Social capital and economic development
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ISBN: 042922902X 1134487738 1280025700 0203166612 9780203166611 9780415271332 0415271339 9786610025701 6610025703 0415271339 9781134487738 9781134487684 1134487681 9781134487721 113448772X 9780415407014 041540701X 9781280025709 Year: 2002 Volume: 2 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer evolutionary treatment of this is embedded in a neoclassical model and will prove to be essential reading for economic development scholars as well as those interested in development studies and economic thought in general.

Social capital : critical perspectives
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ISBN: 0199243670 0198297130 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Active social capital : tracing the roots of development and democracy
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ISBN: 0231125704 0231125712 0231500823 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from sixty-nine villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital is, how it operates in practice, and what results it can be expected to produce. Does social capital provide a viable means for advancing economic development, promoting ethnic peace, and strengthening democratic governance? The world is richer than ever before, but more than a fifth of its people are poor and miserable. Civil wars and ethnic strife continue to mar prospects for peace. Democracy is in place in most countries, but large numbers of citizens do not benefit from it. How can development, peace and democracy become more fruitful for the ordinary citizen? This book shows how social capital is a crucial dimension of any solution to these problems.

Depoliticising development : the World Bank and social capital
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ISBN: 1843310481 184331049X Year: 2002 Publisher: London : Anthem,

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