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This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia … variable bias problems, coefficient for community participation is not statistically significant in explaining changes in … households. However, using probit estimation with the same instrument, we find that participation in community activities …
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The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Bangladesh. Using data from BRAC’s 2004 Social Capital Survey, ordinary least square (OLS)...
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Developing and transition economies are prone to financial crises, including balance of payments and banking crises. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity, relative price changes, and fiscal retrenchment, among...
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targeted partnership intervention within new forms of multi-level and multi-actor governance. Community processes within … identifies a range of mechanisms through which RSLs contribute to social capital and community development, but argues that the …
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sovereign individual discourse and practice which eliminates all alternative approaches to social capital, community and …
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‘salons’ (or community centers). In this quasi-experimental intervention study, we compared 158 participants with 1391 non … surveys of community residents both before (in 2006) and after (in 2008) the opening of the salons. Even with a pre … participation in the newly-opened community salon was associated with a significant improvement in self-rated health over time. The …
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Previous research on corporate community involvement (CCI) initiatives indicates that such behaviour is critical for … building neighbourhood relationships and extending corporate influence in the community, but there is little theoretical work …
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responsibilities and community-level initiatives. It argues that these are interdependent, but separate aspects of emergency management … (networks of strong and weak ties) that may work to improve a community’s resilience to risks and hazards. Two cases studies …
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childcare programs contribute to trends at the population-level is yet to be established. In this study, we examine community … than expected child outcomes in the resilient community were due to better quality childcare in this community. To test … of the three study communities. As expected, teachers (but not parents) from the resilient community reported fewer …
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The story of Roseto, Pennsylvania, USA, is one of the most widely cited studies of the putative influence of community … social cohesion on population health. However, few contemporary studies of community-based “social capital” on health have … manufacturing company). Our study points to the need to ground studies of community-based “social capital” and health on detailed …
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