Selecting actions for improvement of solid waste management in low and middle income
countries and understanding how a specific decision choice will fit and impact on a local …

Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social
Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading …

This article considers how social capital can contribute to poverty alleviation at the micro-
level, based on an analysis of the documentary evidence provided by theoretical …

Why are some places in the world characterized by better social service provision and
welfare outcomes than others? In a world in which millions of people, particularly in …

Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on
human behavior, now a universally-accepted definition. North and others especially …

We investigate the impacts of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total
Sanitation, which was implemented at scale across rural areas of Indonesia with a …

This paper proposes three models of social capital and growth that incorporate different
perspectives on the concept of social capital and the empirical evidence gathered to date. In …

En la última década, el concepto de capital social ha ganado aceptación entre académicos,
consultores y funcionarios y se le han atribuido efectos virtuosos sobre el desarrollo …

This paper explores whether the concept of social capital as popularized by Robert Putnam
is a good social science concept. Taking Gerring's work on concept evaluation as the …

Tolerance of others on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and sexuality is an
important component of social capital but has received scant attention in the social capital …