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Conceptual Issues: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital

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There is a vast and exponentially growing literature on social capital, and scholars from many traditional disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, education, political science, anthropology, demography, geography, management, business, and economics are now contributing to it. It is currently one of the main multi and interdisciplinary topics enabling much cross-fertilization of ideas and some convergence of views.2 Given this vast literature, we draw on the broader definitions and conceptualizations of social capital but focus on economic applications in low-income countries, particularly to rural development.3

We have drawn on Khan (2006) for the first two section of this chapter.

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Khan, S.R., Rifaqat, Z., Kazmi, S. (2007). Conceptual Issues: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital. In: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609723_1

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