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Directions in Development: Understanding and Measuring Social Capital

A Multi-Disciplinary Tool for Practitioners

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The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to overcome this, the Social Capital Initiative at the World Bank attempts to contribute to this understanding by concentrating on how to measure social capital and its impact.This book details both the quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of social capital. Also included is the Social Capital Assessment Tool which combines quantitative and qualitative instruments in order to measure social capital at the household, community, and organization levels. This tool can be downloaded from a CD-ROM which is included with this book.

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Directions in Development: Understanding and Measuring Social Capital, Christiaan Grootaert, Thierry Van Bastelaer

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Pubblicato
2002
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(In brossura),
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11,99 €

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Titolo
Directions in Development: Understanding and Measuring Social Capital
Sottotitolo
A Multi-Disciplinary Tool for Practitioners
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2002
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
316
ISBN10
0821350684
ISBN13
9780821350683
Serie
Descrizione
The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to overcome this, the Social Capital Initiative at the World Bank attempts to contribute to this understanding by concentrating on how to measure social capital and its impact.This book details both the quantitative and qualitative approaches to the analysis of social capital. Also included is the Social Capital Assessment Tool which combines quantitative and qualitative instruments in order to measure social capital at the household, community, and organization levels. This tool can be downloaded from a CD-ROM which is included with this book.