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Social Capital in African Studies

This section collects papers, already listed in other parts of the reading list, having in common a focus on topics related to social capital and development in Africa. Suggested readings are catalogued according to the particular country they refer to. This section is the first step in the building of a new reading list, called "The Geography of Social Capital Studies", aiming to present a new perspective on social capital studies collected in the Social Capital Gateway. It will group papers, often already listed in other parts of the web site, cataloguing them according to the particular country on which their main focus is devoted. The idea is to offer readers the possibility to carry out their bibliographical searches also according to geographical criteria.

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Essential readings

• Collier, P., Gunning, J.W. (1997), Explaining African Economic Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, 64-111.

• Easterly, W., Levine, R. (1995), Africa's Growth Tragedy: A Retrospective, 1960-89, Policy Research Working Paper 1503, Policy Research Department, Washington, DC, World Bank.

• Harriss, J. (2002), Depoliticizing Development: the World Bank and social capital, London, Anthem Press.

• Fine, B. (1999), The Developmental State Is Dead - Long Live Social Capital?, Development and Change, Vol. 30, Issue 1, Page 1 (January 1999).

• Fine, B. (2004), Social Capital for Africa?, Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa - 53, 2004, 29-52.

• Gittel, R., Vidal, A. (1998), Community Organizing: Building Social Capital As A Development Strategy, Newbury Park, California, Sage Publications.

• Isham, J., Kelly, T., Ramaswamy, S., Dirks, F.C. (eds) (2002), Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-Being in Developing Countries, Celtenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar Pub.

• Narayan, D., Nyamwaya, D. (1996), Learning From The Poor: A Participatory Poverty Assessment In Kenya, Enviroment Department Papers, Participation Series, 34, World Bank Social Policy and Resettlement Division, Washington D.C.

• Temple, Jonathan (1998), Initial Conditions, Social Capital, and Growth in Africa, Journal of African Economies, forthcoming 7(3).

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Benin

• Djedjebi, T., de Haan, L. (2001), Fulbe women ’s livelihood in the Borgu region of Benin, in Andersson, J.A., Breusers, M. (eds), Kinship structures and enterprising actors: Anthropological essays on development, pp.225-236, Wageningen, Wageningen University, Liber Amicorum Jan H.B. den Ouden.

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Burkina Faso

• Grimm, G., Gunter, I. (2004), Inter and intra-household linkages between the informal and formal sector. A case study for urban Burkina Faso, Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference "Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors", 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki, Finland.

• Lewis, D., Bebbington, A.J., Batterbury, S.P.J., Shah, A., Olson, E., Siddiqui, M.S., Duvall, S. (2003), Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects, Journal of International Development, Vol. 15, Issue 5 , 541-557.

• Swamy, A.V., Grootaert, C., Oh, G. (2002), Social Capital, Household Welfare and Poverty in Burkina Faso, Journal of African Economies, March 2002, 11(1): 4-38.

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Cameroon

• Mayoux, L. (2001), Tackling the Down Side: Social Capital, Women's Empowerment and Microfinance in Cameroon, Development and Change, 32(3): 435-464.

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Chad

• Weinberger, K., Jütting, J. (2000), The role of local organizations in risk management: some evidence from rural Chad, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 39(3)281-299.

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Côte d’Ivoire

• Ayé, M., Champagne, F., Contandriopoulos, A.P. (2002), Economic role of solidarity and social capital in accessing modern health care services in the Ivory Coast, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 55, No. 11 pp. 1929-1946.

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Grootaert, C., Kanbur, R., Oh, G.T. (1995), The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't : an African case study, Policy Research Working Papers No. 1499, The World Bank.

• Tiemoko, R. (2003), Migration, return and socio-economic change in West Africa: the role of family, Sussex Migration Working Paper no. 15, Sussex Centre for Migration Research.

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Cross-country studies

• Ashman, D., Brown, L.D., Zwick, E. (1998), The strength of strong and weak ties: building social capital for the formation and governance of civil society resource organizations, IDR Reports, Volume 14, Number 2 1998.

• Baliamoune-Lutz, M., Lutz, S.H. (2004), The Contribution of Income, Social Capital, and Institutions to Human Well-Being in Africa, Working Paper B07, Centre for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn.

• Baliamoune-Lutz, M. (2005), Institutions, Social Capital, and Economic Development in Africa: An Empirical Study, Working Paper No. 18 / 2005, International Centre for Economic Research.

• Campbell, C., Cornish, F. and McLean, C. (2004), Social capital, participation and the perpetuation of health inequalities: Obstacles to African-Caribbean participation in 'partnerships' to improve mental health, Ethnicity and Health, N. 9 (3), 305-327.

• Campbell, C., Williams, B., Gilgen, G. (2002), Community participation and sexual health – is there a relationship?, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK / id21 Development Reporting Service.

• Chloupkova, J., Bjørnskov, C. (2002), Counting in Social Capital When Easing Agricultural Credit Constraints, Journal of Microfinance, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2002.

• Fafchamps, M. (2001), Market economics in Africa: a different ball game?, University of Oxford / id21 Development Reporting Service.

• Gabre-Madhin, E.Z. (2003), Institutions, Contracts, and Market Exchange in
Developing Economies, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, mimeo.

• Galvan, D. (2002), Choice in Cultural Context: Embedded Rationales for Social Capital Investment in Africa, Paper prepared for presentation at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 28 August – 1 September 2002.

• Gordon, A., Craig, C. (2001), Rural non-farm activities and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Policy Series 14, University of Greenwich, Natural Resources Institute (NRI).

• Moore, K.M. (ed) (2004), Conflict, Social Capital and Managing Natural Resources: A West African Case Study, Office of International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

• Temple, Jonathan (1998), Initial Conditions, Social Capital, and Growth in Africa, Journal of African Economies, forthcoming 7(3).

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Democratic Republic of Congo

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

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Egypt

Wahba, J., Zenou, Y. (2003), Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt, University of Southampton, Department of Economics, mimeo.

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Eritrea

• Lensink, R., Mehrteab, H.T. (2003), Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea, No 03E04, Research Report from University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management).

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Ethiopia

• Ayalew, D. Risk-Sharing Networks among Households in Rural Ethiopia, The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series, Working Paper 186.

• Dercon, S., Krishnan, P. (2003), Food Aid and Informal Insurance, The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 183.

• Dercon, S., Bold, T., De Weerdt, J., Pankhurst, A. (2004), Group Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania, CSAE WPS/2004-27, University of Oxford.

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Gabre-Madhin, E.Z. (2001), Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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Ghana

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Engel, S., Iskandarani, M., Useche, M. (2005), Improved water supply in the Ghanaian Volta Basin: Who uses it and who participates in community decision-making?, EPT Discussion Paper 129, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute.

• Tiemoko, R. (2003), Migration, return and socio-economic change in West Africa: the role of family, Sussex Migration Working Paper no. 15, Sussex Centre for Migration Research.

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Kenya

• Agricultural M.J. (2005), Family Contributions to Self Help Schooling in Malawi and Kenya, Rural Sociology, January 2005, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 70-93(24).

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Gugerty, M.K. (2000), You can't save alone: testing theories of rotating savings and credit associations. Are ROSCAs more formal than we thought?, University of Washington, mimeo.

• Heffernan, C. (2000), The delivery of veterinary services to the poor: findings from Kenya, Livestock Development Studies Group (UK), mimeo.

• Kremer, M., Kay Gugerty, M. (2002), The Impact of Development Assistance on Social Capital: Evidence from Kenya, in C. Grootaert and T. van Bastelaer (eds.), The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment, Cambridge University Press.

• Lyons, M., Snoxell, S. (2004), Migration, informality and sustainable urban
livelihoods: the role of social capital in four west African markets, Migration and Social Capital Working Paper 1/04, London South Bank University, Urban & Peri-Urban Research Unit, forthcoming in Urban Studies.

• Lyons, M., Snoxell, S. (2004), Creating urban social capital: Some evidence from informal traders in Nairobi, Migration and Social Capital Working Paper 2/04, London South Bank University, Urban & Peri-Urban Research Unit, forthcoming in Urban Studies.

• Markussen, M. (2002), Coping with uncertainty: women in the informal fish processing and marketing sectors of Lake Victoria, Working Paper 2002:115, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR).

• Miguel, E. (2002), Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, mimeo.

• Miguel, E. (2000), Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya, University of California Berkeley CIDER Working Paper, #C01-119.

• Narayan, D., Nyamwaya, D. (1996), Learning From The Poor: A Participatory Poverty Assessment In Kenya, Enviroment Department Papers, Participation Series, 34, World Bank Social Policy and Resettlement Division, Washington D.C.

• Steen-Johnsen, T. (2001), Valuable relations: social capital in the urban informal fisheries sector, Kenya, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo.

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Liberia

• Sawyer, A. (2004), Social Capital, Survival Strategies and Their Potential for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia, Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference "Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors", 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki, Finland.

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Malawi

• Agricultural M.J. (2005), Family Contributions to Self Help Schooling in Malawi and Kenya, Rural Sociology, January 2005, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 70-93(24).

• Kishindo, P. (2001), The Malawi Social Action Fund and Community Development, Community Development Journal Vol. 36 No. 4 2001.

• Van Donge, J. (2004), Nurtured from Above and Growing from the Roots: Social Investment Funds and Decentralization in Zambia and Malawi, Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 38, Issue 4, Page 346 - August 2004.

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Mali

• Adams A.M. (1999), Social capital and development assistance in Mali: a cross-cultural case study, Final report to Canadian International Development Agency.

• Adams, A., Madhavan S, Simon D. (2002), Women's social networks and child survival in Mali, Social Science and Medicine 54(2):165-321.

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Simon D., Adams A.M., Madhavan S. (2002), Women's social power, child nutrition and poverty in Mali, Journal of Biosocial Science, 2002, 34(2):193-213.

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Mozambique

• Galooba-Mutebi, F. (2004), Witchcraft, Trust and Reciprocity Among Mozambican Refugees and Their South African Hosts in a Lowveld Village, Forced Migration Working Paper Series n.9, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand.

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Nigeria

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Mabogunje, A.L., Kates, R.W. (2004), Sustainable development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: the role of social capital, participation, and science and technology, CID Working Paper No. 102 January 2004, Center for International Development at Harvard University.

• Olomola, A. (2002), Social capital, microfinance group performance and poverty implications in Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan.

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Rwanda

• Colletta, N.J., Cullen, M. (2000), Violent conflict and the transformation of social capital: Lessons from Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, and Somalia, Conflict Prevention and Post-conflict Reconstruction series. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

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Sierra Leone

• Richards, P., Bah, K., Vincent, J. (2004), Social Capital and Survival: Prospects for Community-Driven Development in Post- Conflict Sierra Leone, World Bank Social Development Papers, Paper No. 12/April 2004.

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Somalia

• Colletta, N.J., Cullen, M. (2000), Violent conflict and the transformation of social capital: Lessons from Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, and Somalia, Conflict Prevention and Post-conflict Reconstruction series. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

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South Africa

• Campbell, C. (2001), Grassroots Participation, Peer Education, and HIV Prevention by Sex Workers in South Africa, American Journal of Public Health, December 2001, Vol 91, No. 12, 1978-1986.

• Campbell, C., MacPhail, C. (2002), Peer education, gender and the development of critical consciousness: participatory HIV prevention by South African youth, Social Science and Medicine, 2002 Jul;55(2):331-45.

• Campbell, C., Williams, B., Gilgen, G. (2002), Is social capital a useful conceptual tool for exploring community level influences on HIV infection? An exploratory case study from South Africa, Taylor & Francis Health Sciences, Volume 14, Number 1 / February 1, 2002.

• Carter, M.R. e Castillo, M. (2002), The economic impacts of altruism, trust and reciprocity: an experimental approach to social capital, University of Winsconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Staff Paper No. 448.

• Carter, M.R., Castillo, M. (2003), Does It Take More than Markets to Get Ahead? An Experimental Approach to Social Capital in South Africa, Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Paper Series, Paper No. 448, University of Wisconsin.

• Carter, M.N., Maluccio, J.A. (2002), Social Capital and Coping with Economic Shocks: an Analysis of Stunting of South African Children, FCND Discussion Paper No. 142.

• D'Haese M., van Huylenbroeck, G., D'Haese, L. (2005), Collective action in a complex institutional environment: A case study of small-scale wool growers in South Africa, Outlook on Agriculture, January 2005, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 33-40(8).

• Galooba-Mutebi, F. (2004), Witchcraft, Trust and Reciprocity Among Mozambican Refugees and Their South African Hosts in a Lowveld Village, Forced Migration Working Paper Series n.9, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand.

• Haddad, L., Maluccio, J. (2000), Pathways of influence. Social capital and household welfare in South Africa, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA / id21 Development Reporting Service.

• Nel, E.L., Mcquaid, R.W. (2002), Research & Practice: The Evolution of Local Economic Development in South Africa: The Case of Stutterheim and Social Capital, Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, 60-74(15).

• Olivier, M., Kaseke, E., Mpedi, G. (2004), Formulating an Integrated Social Security Response. Perspectives on Developing Links Between Informal and Formal Social Security in the SADC Region, Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference "Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors", 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki, Finland.

• Piazza-Georgi, B. (2002), Human and social capital in Soweto in 1999: report on a field study, Development Southern Africa, Vol. 19, No. 5, 615-639.

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Tanzania

• Blackburn, J., Chambers, R., Gaventa, J. (2000), Mainstreaming Participation in Development, OED Working Paper Series, No. 10, World Bank Operations Evaluation Department.

• De Weerdt, J. (2002), Community Organisations in Rural Tanzania: a case study of the community of Nyakatoke, Economic Development Initiatives (EDI).

• De Weerdt, J. (2002), Risk-sharing and Endogenous Network Formation, WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/57, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER).

• De Weerdt, J., Van de Gaer, D. (2004), Disentangling networks: defining and analysing cohesive subgroups, EDI and University of Ghent.

• Dercon, S. (2000), Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets, The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series, Paper No. 136, Berkeley Electronic Press.

• Dercon, S., De Weerdt, J. (2002), Risk Sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness, The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 175.

• Dercon, S., Bold, T., De Weerdt, J., Pankhurst, A. (2004), Group Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania, CSAE WPS/2004-27, University of Oxford.

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Gibbon, P. (2001), Civil Society, Loyalty and Globalization in Rural Tanzania: A Forty-Year Perspective, Development and Change Vol. 32 (2001), 819-844.

• Isham, J. (2000), The Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, IRIS Center Working Paper No. 235.

• Miguel, E. (2002), Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, mimeo.

• Narayan, D., Pritchett, L. (1998), Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania, Economic Development and Cultural Change.

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Uganda

• Go to the section on Poverty and development in Uganda

• Kasumba, G., Land, A. (2003), Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation. Strategies pulling in Opposite Directions? A Case Study from Uganda, Study prepared in the context of a five-country review on the relationship between Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation.

• Lewis, D. (2002), Civil Society in African Contexts: Reflections on the Usefulness of a Concept, Development and Change Volume 33 Issue 4 Page 569 - September 2002.

• Lister, S., Nyamugasira, W. (2003), Design Contradictions in the 'New Architecture of Aid'? Reflections from Uganda on the Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Development Policy Review Volume 21 Issue 1 Page 93 - January 2003.

• Longo, R. (2003), IFAD Desk Review of the PRSP Process in Eastern and Southern Africa, Eurodad.

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Zambia

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Garrett, J. (2005), Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of PUSH/PROSPECT in Zambia, Discussion Paper 177, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute.

• Hulme, D. (2000), Protecting and strengthening social capital in order to produce desirable development outcomes. A review of DFID's social capital project, Department for International Development (DFID).

• Van Bastelaer,T., Leathers, H. (2002), Social Capital and Group Lending: Evidence from Joint Liability Seed Loans in Zambia's Southern Province, IRIS - Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, mimeo.

• Van Donge, J. (2004), Nurtured from Above and Growing from the Roots: Social Investment Funds and Decentralization in Zambia and Malawi, Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 38, Issue 4, Page 346 - August 2004.

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Zimbabwe

• Bird, K., Shepherd, A. (2003), Livelihoods and chronic poverty in semi-arid Zimbabwe, World Development, Vol. 31, No. 3 pp.591-610.

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