Social Capital and Local Economic Development: Implications for Community Social Work Practice

Exploration of the Factorial Structure of the Revised Personal Functions of the Volunteerism Scale for Chinese Adolescents

“…Volunteerism and social development are closely related. One aim of community development is to facilitate cooperation in the community through volunteerism (Midgley and Livermore 1998). Many services would not be possible without the participation of volunteers.…”

Community analysis as socio-economic system: space-territorial nature, functions and features

“…The study of socio-economic development of territorial entities involved many scientists and practitioners: -in work [2], the main problems of improving the legal regulation of local self-government in Ukraine are analyzed; -definition of the territorial community as the primary subject of municipal authority is made in [10]; -in [11], local economic development is investigated: implications for the practice of social social work; -about the impact of the economic crisis on social inequality in the communities said by the author [12]; -development of the eco-social economy and its impact on the relevant communities is defined in [13]; -studies of fiscal decentralization and its impact on community development are reviewed in [14]; -in work [15], the process of development of communities on ethnic decentralization is investigated; -the general approach to the creation of an effective system of social assistance in the fieldis investigated by the author of [16]; -in work [17] the influence of the social security system on the satisfaction of life for the inhabitants of individual territories is investigated; -definitions that the decentralization of local government useful for development, are given in [18]. Thus, the results of the analysis lead to the conclusion that the study of the decentralization process is more promising in more detail.…”

Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Social Capital in Aboriginal Communities in Canada

“…Social capital has been studied in relation to education, labour markets (Department of Economics, 1999), local economic development (Midgley & Livermore, 1998), microfinance (Rankin, 2002), sustainable community development (Dale, 2005), economic performance (Casey & Christ, 2005), health (Bolin, Lindgren, Lindström, & Nystedt, 2003;Campbell, Williams, & Gilgen, 2002;Gooden, 1998;Kawachi, Kennedy, Lochner, & Prothrow-Stith, 1997;Rose, 2000;Veenstra, 2000), identity, transition to work (Fevre, 2000), communicative competence and human resources (Szreter, 2000), among other approaches.…”