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Social
capital and microfinance: pathways of development. A case study:
Arsi and Bale - Ethiopia
Original title: “Capitale
sociale e microfinanza: sentieri di sviluppo. Un caso studio: l’Arsi
e Bale, Etiopia ”
Luigi Curini
PhD Programme in Institutions and Organizations
Catholic University of Milan, Faculty of Political Science
Supervisor: Professor Simona Beretta, Catholic University
of Milan, Department of International Economics, Institutions and
Development
February 2002
Abstract
The importance for social and political studies of the problems
related to collective action and more generally to cooperation can’t
be neglected. Some of these problems find a solution; others don’t.
This thesis is related to the growing literature on social capital.
It is shown that social capital (i.e. institutionalized expectations
of cooperation) can help to explain the institutional performance
of a microfinance programme settled in rural Ethiopia. At this regard,
it is assumed that the rate of repayment for different credit groups
is influenced by their ability to lower the transactions costs of
supplying a public good (an efficient regime). The channels through
which the social capital is hypothesised working – both at
a micro (group level) and at a macro level (village level) - are
addressed from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view
(using a multilevel methodology). The consequences of these findings
in terms both of politics and of policies for development, especially
in the rural areas of LDC’s, are finally addressed.
Information
on the author
Dr Luigi Curini
is a Researcher in Political Science at the Department of Social
and Political studies at the University of Milan where he teaches
Political Science and Theory and Methods of Comparative Politics.
He also teaches within the ‘Graduate School in Social, Economic
and Political Sciences’ at the same University, in the sphere
of Research Doctorate in Political studies, Institutions and public
policies. His major interests are linked to the problems of collective
action and of cooperation within loosely institutionalized contexts;
as well as interaction between deliberative processes, communicative
rationality, and game theory.
Contact details
Dr Luigi Curini
Università degli Studi di Milano
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici
Via Conservatorio, 7
I - 20122 Milano
Tel. +39 02 50318831
e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it
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at the address luigi.curini@unimi.it
Additional information
This thesis is written in Italian,
and is listed also in sections Political
Sciences, Italian and
in the Chronological archive
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