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Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital? : evidence from the Philippines /
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Year: 2008 Publisher: [Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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"This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment. The analysis uses a unique data set of about 2,100 households collected before the project started (2003) and after one cycle of sub-project implementation (2006) in 66 treatment and 69 matched control communities. Participation in village assemblies, the frequency with which local officials meet with residents and trust towards strangers increased as a result of the project. However, there is a decline in group membership and participation in informal collective action activities. This may have been because households were time-constrained, so that in order to participate in project activities, they needed to temporarily reduce their participation in informal activities. An alternative explanation is that the project improved the efficiency of formal forms of social capital and thus households needed to rely less on informal forms. Finally, the results indicate that, in the short run, the project might have reduced the number of other investments. "--World Bank web site.


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Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS, social capital, and development
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Year: 2008 Publisher: [Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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"This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. Using data from the World Values Survey, the authors estimate reduced-form regressions of the main determinants of social capital controlling for HIV prevalence, institutional quality, social distance, and economic indicators. The results obtained indicate that HIV prevalence affects social capital negatively. The empirical estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in HIV prevalence will lead to a decline of at least 1 percent in trust, controlling for other determinants of social capital. Moving from a country with a relatively low level of HIV prevalence, such as Estonia, to a country with a relatively high level, such as Uganda, there is a more than 11 percent point decline in social capital. These results are robust in a number of dimensions and highlight the empirical importance of an additional mechanism through which HIV/AIDS hinders the development process. "--World Bank web site.


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Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital? : evidence from the Philippines /
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"This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment. The analysis uses a unique data set of about 2,100 households collected before the project started (2003) and after one cycle of sub-project implementation (2006) in 66 treatment and 69 matched control communities. Participation in village assemblies, the frequency with which local officials meet with residents and trust towards strangers increased as a result of the project. However, there is a decline in group membership and participation in informal collective action activities. This may have been because households were time-constrained, so that in order to participate in project activities, they needed to temporarily reduce their participation in informal activities. An alternative explanation is that the project improved the efficiency of formal forms of social capital and thus households needed to rely less on informal forms. Finally, the results indicate that, in the short run, the project might have reduced the number of other investments. "--World Bank web site.


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Exploring the links between HIV/AIDS, social capital, and development
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Year: 2008 Publisher: [Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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"This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. Using data from the World Values Survey, the authors estimate reduced-form regressions of the main determinants of social capital controlling for HIV prevalence, institutional quality, social distance, and economic indicators. The results obtained indicate that HIV prevalence affects social capital negatively. The empirical estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in HIV prevalence will lead to a decline of at least 1 percent in trust, controlling for other determinants of social capital. Moving from a country with a relatively low level of HIV prevalence, such as Estonia, to a country with a relatively high level, such as Uganda, there is a more than 11 percent point decline in social capital. These results are robust in a number of dimensions and highlight the empirical importance of an additional mechanism through which HIV/AIDS hinders the development process. "--World Bank web site.


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Social capital and the happiness of nations : the importance of trust and networks for life satisfaction in a cross-national perspective.
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ISBN: 9783631570159 Year: 2008 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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Cuba : religion, social capital, and development.
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ISBN: 9780822341802 9780822341963 Year: 2008 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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The handbook of social capital
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ISBN: 9780199271238 0199271232 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,


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Trust and transitions : social capital in a changing world
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ISBN: 1282036092 9786612036095 1443804584 9781443804585 9781282036093 1847189059 9781847189059 6612036095 Year: 2008 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Employing a range of empirical and theoretical approaches, contributors to this volume examine the nature and function of trust from within the framework of social capital theory. The empirically oriented chapters focus on post-Communist countries, includ


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Intangible capital : its contribution to economic growth, well-being and rationality.
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ISBN: 9781847200884 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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Women entrepreneurship and social capital : a dialogue and construction
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ISBN: 8763099918 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Copenhagen] : Copenhagen Business School Press,

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