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The document titled 'Cross-Cultural Measures of Social Capital: A Tool and Results from India and Panama' presents a working paper by Anirudh Krishna and Elizabeth Shrader under the World Bank's Social Capital Initiative. It discusses the importance of social capital in sustainable development, outlines issues related to measuring social capital across different cultural contexts, and introduces a proposed tool for cross-cultural measurement. The paper details methodologies for assessing social capital through community profiles, household surveys, and organizational profiles, with preliminary results from pilot tests conducted in India and Panama. The findings emphasize the need for contextually relevant measures while providing insights into the relationships between social capital, community engagement, and development outcomes.

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What are the 4 types of social capital?

There are four types of social capital: bonding, bridging, linking and identifying.

What is the World Bank social capital Initiative?

The SCI seeks to provide empirical evidence from more than a dozen countries, as a basis to design better development interventions which can both safeguard existing social capital and promote the creation of new social capital.

What is the measurement of social capital?

Political scientists examine social capital in relation to civic engagement, political participation, and collective action. Their measurement tools encompass indicators of political trust, participation in formal and informal political activities, and membership in civic or community organizations.

What are the four measures of social capital?

We focus on four existing constructs: collective efficacy, psychological sense of community, neighborhood cohesion and community competence. Each of these constructs taps into slightly different, yet overlapping, aspects of social capital.

What are the 4 dimensions of social capital?

Other authors have identified different groups of dimensions, for example Liu and Besser (2003) identified four dimensions of social capital: informal social ties, formal social ties, trust, and norms of collective action.

What is the problem with the World Bank?

The World Banks own Independent Evaluation Group acknowledges that the World Bank has too many priorities and that accountability for results is weak. As a result, the World Bank is primarily interested in making new loans, with few consequences in terms of missing development targets.

What are the four interpretations of social capital?

The paper identifies four main ways in which the concept of social capital has been conceptualised and measured -- i) personal relationships; ii) social network support; iii) civic engagement; and iv) trust and cooperative norms -- reflecting different views of what social capital is and implying different research

Is Worldbank org a reliable source?

World Bank databases are essential tools for supporting critical management decisions and providing key statistical information for Bank operational activities. The application of internationally accepted standards and norms results in a consistent, reliable source of information.

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