Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development

✍ Scribed by Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Zeb Rifaqat, Sajid Kazmi (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 293
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Conceptual Issues: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital....Pages 3-15
Empirical Applications of Social Capital to Growth, Poverty Alleviation, and Rural Development....Pages 17-27
Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital in Pakistan....Pages 29-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Cultural Context....Pages 45-64
HDF Interventions....Pages 65-84
Social Mobilization....Pages 85-117
Health....Pages 119-132
Education....Pages 133-144
Field Update 2001....Pages 145-157
Field Update 2006....Pages 159-177
Summary and Conclusion....Pages 179-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Planning a Field Study to Assess the Role of Harnessing Social Capital for Rural Development....Pages 191-201
Back Matter....Pages 203-284

✦ Subjects

Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Political Economy; Political Science; Social Theory

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