Author: Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9907290750
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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It pays for poor households to participate actively in local associations. At low incomes, the returns to social capital are higher than returns to human capital. At higher incomes, the reverse is true.
Author: EKO. HANDOYO
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ISBN: 9781527583573
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Languages : en
Pages :
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This book addresses social capital and poverty in Indonesia, describing perspectives and methodologies of social capital measurement, the benefits of social capital, the relation between poverty and development, and the role social capital in poverty alleviation. It also explores the various alternative efforts to improve people's welfare.
Author: Christian Grootaert
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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It pays for poor households to participate actively in local associations. At low incomes, the returns to social capital are higher than returns to human capital. At higher incomes, the reverse is true.Grootaert empirically estimates how social capital affects household welfare and poverty in Indonesia. His focus: household memberships in local associations, an aspect of social capital especially relevant to daily household decisions that affect welfare and consumption.The data suggest that households with higher social capital spend more per capita. They also have more assets, more savings, and better access to credit.To estimate how social capital contributes to household welfare, Grootaert uses a reduced-form model of household welfare, which controls for relevant household and location characteristics. He measures social capital along six dimensions: density of memberships, internal heterogeneity of associations (by age, gender, education, religion, and so on), meeting attendance, active participation in decision-making, payment of dues, and community orientation.The strongest effects come from:- Number of memberships. Each additional membership (an average 20 percent increase) raises per capita household spending 1.5 percent.- Internal heterogeneity. An increase of 20 percent in the heterogeneity index correlates with 3.3 percent more spending.- Active participation in decision-making. An increase of 20 percent in the participation index correlates with 3.2 percent more spending.Grootaert also estimates structural equations and uses instrumental variable estimation and historical data to address the possible endogeneity of the social capital variable and to demonstrate that the causality runs from social capital to household welfare.This paper - a product of the Social Development Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to assess empirically the role of local institutions in the delivery of services and poverty alleviation.
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Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139438026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Previously the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - in programs of poverty alleviation and development has risen to considerable prominence. Although development practitioners have long suspected that social capital does affect the efficiency and quality of most development processes, this book provides the rigorous empirical results needed to confirm that impression and translate it into effective and informed policymaking. It is based on a large volume of collected data, relying equally on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to establish approaches for measuring social capital and its impact. The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.
Author: Iwan J. Azis
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811668310
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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This open access book analyzes the dualism and inequality insofar as how it is manifested in interregional disparity and small enterprises. Using the case of Indonesia, the author considers how the general direction of policy should be to mitigate the effects of agglomeration forces leading towards concentration, and exploit the same forces by encouraging small businesses to operate in a cluster for collective action. The book addresses these issues by focusing on the role of interactions between policies and institutions, of which social capital is an important part. This is an open access book.
Author: Suwandi Suwandi
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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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The high cost of transaction fee, the risk in providing loans to micro enterprises and the obstacles to understand the characterisrtics of poor society make the banks and other formal micro financial intitutions (LKMs) hard to reach the micro enterprises. In order for the poor society to get access to LKMs, several adjustments have been made. However, the fact is that the LKMs are not only difficult to be accessed to, these institutions has no power to stop the rising of the powerty rate in Papua. This study analyses the existing LKMs empowerment model of Jayapura regency, the LKM social capital initiation, and the capital of local poor society. It formulates strategies for empowering LKMs. The phenomenology approach was used to reveal the reality hidden in people's consciousness. The analysis process is based on Miles and Huberman's interactive model and the thought of phenomenologists like Husserl, Weber, Schutz, and Berger. All LKMs were not supported by the local government; instead the existing empowerment programs from the government were in the form of supplying facilities, equipments, block grant, soft loan, as well as funds provided through banks. The social capital initiations perfomed by the LKMs under credit related interaction with their micro customers were still low.
Author: Partha Dasgupta
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350041
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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This book contains a number of papers presented at a workshop organised by the World Bank in 1997 on the theme of 'Social Capital: Integrating the Economist's and the Sociologist's Perspectives'. The concept of 'social capital' is considered through a number of theoretical and empirical studies which discuss its analytical foundations, as well as institutional and statistical analyses of the concept. It includes the classic 1987 article by the late James Coleman, 'Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital', which formed the basis for the development of social capital as an organising concept in the social sciences.
Author: Yulius Slamet
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Category : Indonesia
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: Sujarwoto
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ISBN: 9781907247484
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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