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Development under conditions of inequality and distrust: Social cohesion in Latin America

Ferroni, Marco; Mateo, Mercedes; Payne, Mark - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

capital and inequality. Using data and literature on Latin America, the paper argues that low interpersonal trust and …

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Beyond the bari: Gender, groups, and social relations in rural Bangladesh

Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

This paper uses a longitudinal data set from rural Bangladesh to analyze the factors that affect men's and women's ability to participate in groups and to engage in relationships with powerful and influential people. Unlike studies from other countries that find group membership to be positively...

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Costly posturing: relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China:

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012

Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by fellow villagers have been regarded as social norms in Chinese villages for thousands of years. However, it is more burdensome for the poor to take part in these social occasions than for the rich. Because...

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Local sources of resilience: Working with social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

capital. Social capital includes â€œfeatures of social organization, such as networks, norms, and social trust, that …

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Resilience and social capital:

Bernier, Quinn; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy. People have been facing shocks, both natural and anthropogenic, forever, devising and innovating a variety of institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future impacts. Central to...

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Methods for studying collective action in rural development:

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Di Gregorio, Monica; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

With renewed recognition of the importance of collective action in many aspects of agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development programs in developing countries, there is a need for research on the factors that affect its emergence, as well as its performance. Yet because of...

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Social innovation and entrepreneurship: Developing capacity to reduce poverty and hunger

Babu, Suresh; Pinstrup-Andersen, Per - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

Krishna, Anirudh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

Social capital is a resource, a propensity for mutually beneficial collective action that communities possess to different extents. Communities with high levels of social capital are able to act together collectively for achieving diverse common objectives. While the concept of social capital is...

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Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda:

Katungi, Enid; Edmeades, Svetlana; Smale, Melinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Changing agricultural research and extension systems mean that informal mechanisms of information diffusion are often the primary source of information about improved seed and practices for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital...

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Gender differences in mobilization for collective action: case studies of villages in Northern Nigeria

Abdulwahid, Saratu - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

villages show that while men engage in community activities such as road repairs, maintenance of schools and hospitals, refuse … farm work and care giving. It is argued that men mobilize around community activities outside the home because of their … influences the extent of women's participation in collective action. Because men have command of community institutions, they are …

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