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Social Capital, Productivity and Innovation in Rural Areas

This section focuses on the relationship between social capital and rural development in developing countries. A particular focus is on the ability of different forms of social capital to foster or to hamper the diffusion of knowledge and innovation.
The section is under construction: suggestions and comments are always most welcome.

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Essential Readings

Fafchamps, M., Minten, B. (1999), Social Capital and the Firm: Evidence from Agricultural Trade, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 21, World Bank.

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

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

Parthasarathy, D., Chopde, V.K. (2000), Building social capital: collective action, adoption of agricultural innovations, and poverty reduction in the Indian semi-arid tropics, Global Development Network (GDN).

Pretty, J. (2003), Social capital and connectedness: issues and implications for agriculture, rural development and natural resource management in ACP countries, CTA Working Document Number 8032, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

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Further Readings

Ashby, J. (2002), Assessing the benefits of rural women's participation in natural resource management research and capacity building, CGIAR Program, Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR.

Asian Development Bank (2000), A Study of Rural Asia: An Overview.
Beyond the Green Revolution
, Manila, Asian Development Bank.

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

Barr, A. (1998), Enterprise Performance and the Functional Diversity of Social Capital, Working Paper Series 98-1, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford.

Barr, A. (2000), Networking for success and survival in Ghana. Does size matter?, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), UK / id21 Development Reporting Service.

Barrett, C. (2004), Smallholder identities and social networks: the challenge of improving productivity and welfare, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, mimeo.

Bebbington, A. (1997), Social Capital and Rural Intensification: Local Organizations and Islands of Sustainability in the Rural Andes, The Geographical Journal Vol. 163, No. 2, July 1997 189-197.

Bebbington, A., Kopp, A., Rubinoff, D. (1997), From Chaos to Strength?: Social Capital, Rural People's Organizations and Sustainable Rural Development, University of Manchester, mimeo.

Bebbington, A., Carrol, T. (2000), Induced Social Capital and Federations of the Rural Poor, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 19, The World Bank.

Bezemer, D.J., Lerman, Z. (2003), Rural Livelihoods in Armenia, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Discussion Paper No. 4.03.

Bird, K., Hulme, D., Moore, K., Shepherd, A. (2002), Chronic poverty and remote rural areas, CPRC Working Paper No 13, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Birmingham.

Bush, R. (2004), Society and the uncivil state: land tenure reform in Egypt and the crisis of rural livelihoods, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Carroll, T.F., Bebbington, A.J. (2000), Peasant federations and rural development policies in the Andes, Policy Sciences, No. 33 (3-4): 435-457, December 2000.

Chloupkova, J., Bjornskov, C. (2002), Could Social Capital Help Czech Agriculture?, Agricultural Economics, 48, 2002(6), 245-249.

Das, R.J. (2005), Rural Society, the State and Social Capital in Eastern India: A Critical Investigation, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, 48-87.

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

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.

• Eklund, P.A., Felloni, F., Imai, K. (2003), Women’s Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Rural Nepal, Paper presented at the International Conference "Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy", IDPM, University of Manchester, 7 to 9 April 2003.

Fox, J. (1996), How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico, World Development, Vol. 24, No. 6, 1089-1103.

Fox, J. (2003), El capital social: De la teoría a la práctica. El Banco Mundial en el campo mexicano, Internacional, 43(2), April, 2003.

Fox, J., Gershman, J. (2001), The World Bank and Social Capital: Lessons from Ten Rural Development Projects in Mexico and the Philippines, Policy Sciences, 33(3 & 4), 2000.

Fritzsch, J., Wolz, A., Reinsberg, K. (2004), The Impact of Social and Human Capital on Economic Welfare. The Case of Polish Farmers, Paper presented at the Conference " International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 5-7, 2004.

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

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

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).

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

International Fund for Agricultural Development (2001), Institutions and the Rural Poor: Building Coalitions for Poverty Reduction, chapter in the Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty, International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Isaac, C.B. (2002), Class Stratification and Cooperative Production Among Rural Women in Central Mexico, Latin American Research Review, 123-150.

Isham, J. (2000), Choosing better technology. Does social capital help?, Middlebury College / id21 Development Reporting Service.

Isham, J. (2002), The Effect of Social Capital on Fertiliser Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, Journal of African Economies 2002, 11: 39-60.

Jonson, N., Suarez, R., Lundy, M. (2002), The importance of social capital in Colombian rural agro-enterprises, Paper presented at the 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22, 2002, Durban, South Africa.

Kähkönen, S. (1999), Does Social Capital Matter in Water and Sanitation Delivery? A Review of Literature, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 9, The World Bank.

Kaosa-ard, M.S., Rerkasem, B. (2000), Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture in Asia, Oxford and Manila, Oxford University Press and Asian Development Bank.

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.

Majid, N. (2004), Reaching Millennium Goals: How well does agricultural productivity growth reduce poverty?, Employment Strategy Papers 2004/12, International Labour Organization (ILO).

• 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).

• Molinas, J. (1998), Impact of Inequality, Gender, and External Assistance and Social Capital on Local-Level Cooperation, World Development, Vol. 26, No. 3, 413-431.

Nah Tiepoh, M.G., Reimer, B. (2004), Social capital, information flows, and
income creation in rural Canada: a cross-community analysis
, Journal of Socio-Economics 33 (2004) 427–448.

Narayan, D., Pritchett, L. (1997), Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania, Policy Research Working Paper 1-41, The World Bank.

Nyangena, W. (2004), The Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Empirical evidence from Kenya, Paper presented at the Thirteen Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, Budapest, June 25-28, 2004.

O'Brien, D., Raedeke, A., Hassinger, E. (1998), The Social Networks of Leaders in More or Less Viable Communities Six Years Later: A Research Note, Rural Sociology Vol. 63, No. 1.

Pimbert, M. (2004), Learning by doing in co-management of natural resources throughout the world, International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED) and World Conservation Union (IUCN).ù

Porter, G. (2002), Living in a Walking World: Rural Mobility and Social Equity Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Development, Vol. 30, No. 2 pp. 285-300.

Putterman, L. (1995), Social Capital and Development Capacity: The Example of Rural Tanzania, Development Policy Review, Vol. 13, 1995, 5-22.

• Reid, C., Salmen, L. (2000), Understanding Social Capital: Agricultural Extensions in Mali: Trust and Social Cohesion, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper no. 22, Washington D.C., The World Bank.

Rosenzweig (1988), Risk, Implicit Contracts and the Family in Rural Areas of Low-Income Countries, The Economic Journal, December 1988 1148-1170.

Siamwalla, A. (ed) (2001), The Evolving Roles of the State, Private, and Local Actors in Rural Asia, Oxford and Manila, Oxford University Press and Asian Development Bank.

• Schechter, L.A. (2005), Trust, Trustworthiness, and Risk in Rural Paraguay, A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley.

• Sorensen, C. (2000), Social Capital and Rural Development: A Discussion Issue, Social Capital Initiative Working Paper no. 10, Washington D.C., The World Bank.

• Uquillas, J.E., Van Nieuwkoop, M. (2003), Social Capital as a Factor in Indigenous Peoples Development in Ecuador, Latin America and Caribbean Region Sustainable Development Working Paper 15, The World Bank.

• 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.

• Winters, P., Corral, L., Gordillo, G. (2001), Rural livelihood strategies and social capital in Latin America: Implications for rural development projects, Working Paper Series in Agricultural and Resource Economics, No. 2001-6, University of New England.

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