Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Observations on social capital -- Notes on social capital and economic performance -- Social capital in the creation of human capital -- Defining social capital: an integrating view -- Formal and informal institutions -- Creating and harnessing social capital --...

The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and...

Observing the refraction of law -- Refraction in regulatory space and legal pluralism -- Tensions and the non-autonomous state -- Electricity-role of the state, political economy, and regulatory reform -- Andhra Pradesh-a state "susceptible" to a powerful society -- The state as a...

This volume presents papers from a global gathering of the world’s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring...