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Social capital is a broad term containing the social networks and norms that generate shared understandings, trust and …. This study deals with the formation of social capital through development of human capital that is created from productive …
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This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...
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Globalization is a universal phenomenon that not only makes domestic economies restructure, but also may impact other areas of local societies. This paper studies the effect of globalization on human relations, in particular on the formation of social networks, both bonding and bridging: I...
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This paper analyses development mechanism through which natural resource capital regenerates and contributes to … economic growth. Climate change challenges economic development in the 21st century but it also provides opportunity to grow … with developing green. New development strategy is the inclusive green growth that leads towards sustainable development …
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This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not … development of social capital, which is a broader concept containing the social norms and networks that generate shared … understandings, trust and reciprocity, which underpin co-operation and collective action for mutual benefits that creates the base …
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of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run …, like, for example, human development and social cohesion. Second, it is still unclear what type of networks may exert a … positive effect on the different dimensions of development. In particular, the literature has not yet provided a rigorous …
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development of higher education system. The paper focuses on one of the issues raised by the Spellings Commission, access to …
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We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
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political institutions) towards economic growth. Utilizing the World Value Survey (WVS)’s trust variable that has often been … studies, this study shows that WVS’ trust data suffer severe missing observation problem and the panel fixed effect estimation … of social capital beyond the WVS trust indicator. The results also indicate that political institutions effect on growth …
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important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process …
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