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Other interesting documents
for the study of the relationship between social capital and poverty are available in the following web sites:

BREAD
BREAD (Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002 dedicated to encourage research and scholarship in development economics. The website contains a section on data from developing countries partitioned into the following categories: household surveys, firm-level data, and macro data sources

Local Level Institutions Study Working Papers
This page provides links to the working papers produced by the Social Capital Initiative (SCI) and the Local Level Institutions Study
The Local Level Institutions (LLI) Study is an innovative program of comparative empirical research across three countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso and Indonesia

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues

Participation and civic engagement in poverty reduction strategies
A web site edited by the World Bank. It focuses on the role of social capital in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

Social Capital for Development
The World Bank's web site on social capital


United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Agency on human, social and economic development. From this website you can download the Human Development Report

The Virtual Library
on Microcredit

This Virtual Library contains an impressive bibliography on microcredit and related topics, a collection of web resources, and database of case studies geographically organised. The web site is edited by the Global Development Research Center

 
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Social Capital and Poverty in Developing Countries

This section is devoted to the role of social interactions and social capital in the fight against poverty and inequalities in developing countries. Particular consideration is given to the ability of social interactions to mitigate the effects of income inequalities, to improve the capabilities and the quality of life of the poors, to foster productivity and innovation in rural areas, and to support the development of microcredit programmes.

• Social interactions, health and the quality of life in urban and rural areas
Studies collected in this section show how different forms of social capital may mitigate the effects of poverty and inequalities. For example, social networks make possible the creation of spontaneous mechanisms of informal insurance; Collective action, often in the form of voluntary organizations, can improve the efficiency of public services delivery and/or of public social protection systems.

• Social capital, productivity and innovation in rural areas
This section focuses on the ability of different forms of social capital to foster or to hamper the diffusion of knowledge and innovation.

• Social capital and microcredit
Grameen Bank's experience has shown that developing microcredit programmes requires the formation of dense horizontal networks and the creation of well-functioning links between such networks and the higher levels of programmes' management.

• Development assistance, civil society, social capital, and poverty reduction
This section deals with the role of development assistance in poverty reduction, with a particular focus on the ability to foster participatory processes, civil society's role in the political debate, and social capital formation.

• Readings on other aspects of the relationship between social interactions and poverty in developing countries
Waiting for new, more specific, categories, this section collects, temporarily in a residual way, readings on other topics related to the relationship between social capital and poverty. Considered studies address topics like the role of the state, the relevance of the informal economy, and the relationship between different forms of social capital (i.e. bonding, bridging, and linking social capital) in poverty reduction processes.

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Capitale Sociale.it
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Department of Public Economics
University of Rome "La Sapienza"

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