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Capitale sociale, produttività e innovazione nelle aree rurali dei paesi in via di sviluppo

Questa sezione è dedicata al rapporto tra capitale sociale e sviluppo delle aree rurali nei paesi a basso reddito. Particolare attenzione è dedicata alla capacità delle diverse forme di capitale sociale di ostacolare o promuovere la diffusione della conoscenza e l'aggiornamento delle tecniche di produzione.
La sezione è in costruzione: sono graditi suggerimenti e segnalazioni.

• Letture fondamentali

• Approfondimenti

• Torna alla reading list

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Letture fondamentali

• 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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Approfondimenti

• 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).

• 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.

• Wolfe, D.A. (2002), Social Capital and Cluster Development in Learning Regions, in Holbrook, J.A. and Wolfe, D.A. (eds), Knowledge, Clusters and Learning Regions, Kingston, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.

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