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POLICY ARENA: The World Bank and social capital: contesting the concept in practice

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 152 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-1748
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199711)9:7<963::aid-jid499>3.0.co;2-d

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✦ Synopsis

World Bank loans in¯uence the environment for social capital formation. They may have positive or negative eects. This paper reviews experience in rural Mexico, concluding that in many cases the Bank appears to be contributing to the dismantling of social capital more than to its construction.

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