Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development
by Khan, Shahrukh Rafi; Kazmi, Sajid; Rifaqat, ZebFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 11/15/2007
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
The book suggests that social capital is a feature of the community in terms of their norms, mutual trust, reciprocal obligations, and social networks. When successful, development organizations can harness the social capital and embody it in village or community organizations and subsequently guide these organizations to participate and engage in collective action for poverty alleviation and enhancing community welfare.For our in-depth case study, we utilize varied quantitative and qualitative research methods, including anthropological research and the use of control villages for comparison.The authors also document the importance of understanding history and culture for the process of harnessing social capital.
Author Biography
Shahrukh Rafi Khan is Visiting Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College.
Sajid Kazmi is Coordinator Advocacy, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
Zeb Rifaqat is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Table of Contents
| List of Annexures | p. ix |
| List of Tables | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xviii |
| Glossary | p. xix |
| Background: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital | |
| Conceptual Issues: Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital | p. 3 |
| Empirical Applications of Social Capital to Growth, Poverty Alleviation, and Rural Development | p. 17 |
| Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital in Pakistan | p. 29 |
| Case Study: Human Development Foundation, Pakistan | |
| Cultural Context | p. 45 |
| HDF Interventions | p. 65 |
| Social Mobilization | p. 85 |
| Health | p. 119 |
| Education | p. 133 |
| Field Update 2001 | p. 145 |
| Field Update 2006 | p. 159 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 179 |
| Harnessing Social Capital: Manual for the Field Researcher | |
| Planning a Field Study to Assess the Role of Harnessing Social Capital for Rural Development | p. 191 |
| Questionnaire for community organizations (CO), extended community, and control village households | p. 203 |
| FGD questions on collective action for CO members | p. 216 |
| FGD questions on collective action for non-CO members and control village communities | p. 227 |
| Field strategy | p. 233 |
| Terms of reference | p. 234 |
| Survey design | p. 236 |
| Proposed budget check-list | p. 238 |
| Notes | p. 239 |
| References | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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