investment, which in turn require trust. This paper reports on trust in a development context. The paper uses trust experiments …, a post-experiment survey, and econometric analysis relating trust to identity and other personal attributes in the … commercial experience. The paper reviews cultural priors that can be expected to affect trust and distinguishes between …

leadership selection mechanisms are more likely to produce interpersonal trust than other forms of participation. … provides individual-level data on the population's participation in social organizations and willingness to trust members of … its community. Probit models are estimated to explain the individual's decision to participate and to trust strangers, and …

in HIV prevalence will lead to a 1 percent decline in trust, controlling for other determinants of social capital. If one …

capital provides long-term benefits such as better access to credit and a higher level of trust in the community as a source …

Social capital - in the form of general trust and strong civi norms that call for cooperation when large … societies with greater trust tended to have governments that performed significantly better. The authors used survey measures of … capital (as measured by an index of trust, volunteering, and census response), government performance is rated higher, based …