Social Capital and Well-being in Developing Countries: An Introduction

Isham, Jonathan; Kelly, Thomas J.; Ramaswamy, Sunder

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“…A growing strand of literature has emphasized the fundamental importance of social capital for subjective well-being (Putnam 2000;Isham et al 2002;Helliwell 2006;Yip et al 2007). Putnam et al (1993) conducted a natural experiment by studying the institutional performance of Italian regions from 1970s onwards when Italian government established regional governments and showed that differences in contemporary institutional efficacy between the North and South (Mezzogiorno) can be traced back to the differences in various components of social capital such as trust in others, association and civic traditions that extend back to the Middle Ages.…”

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Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

Spruk

Kešeljević

2015

J Happiness Stud

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We exploit the cross-country differences in economic freedom to examine the link between the quality of institutions and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset, the evidence suggests countries with better economic institutions and higher level of economic freedom, captured by the security of property rights, open markets and more limited government, are significantly more likely to experience greater subjective well-being after controlling for structural confounders of national subjective well-being such as income, unemployment, inequality, social capital and life satisfaction. The effect of institutions on cross-national happiness is both significant and robust to different model specifications, estimation techniques and possible sources of endogeneity. Furthermore, our panel data analysis reveals that over time higher levels of economic freedom are associated with decreasing subjective well-being after controlling for state dependence and income.

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Section: Happiness: Causes and Correlatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

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Kešeljević

2015

J Happiness Stud

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“…Por ejemplo, Reyes (1999) y Collier (2002 enfatizan el papel de la acción de los grupos armados en el aumento de la pobreza, y Cárdenas (2002) explica la caída en el crecimiento del ingreso colombiano en los últimos años con una implosión de productividad que se explica por el aumento del crimen, el fortalecimiento de los movimientos insurgentes y la expansión del narcotráfico a inicios de los años ochenta. En las dos últimas décadas, la medición del capital social se ha constituido en un debate reconocido (Isham et al, 2002;Atria et al, 2003;Dasgupta y Serageldin, 2000). Éste se ha enriquecido con diferentes metodologías y aproximaciones empíricas al concepto de capital social, sus alcances y formas y los diferentes canales en los que facilita el desarrollo (Grootaert y Van Bastelaer, 2002).…”

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Capital social e ingreso de los hogares del sector urbano en Colombia

Viviana¹

2005

Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad

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Capital social e ingreso de los hogares del sector urbano en Colombia Social capital and household income in urban ColombiaSandra Viviana Polanía Reyes* ResumenEl capital social en Colombia no ha sido gran objeto de estudio desde una perspectiva microeconómica, a pesar de que las interacciones entre actores individuales encaminadas a obtener beneficios comunes pueden ser un determinante de los ingresos de los hogares. Este estudio discute y explica la relación entre el capital social y el ingreso de los hogares urbanos en Colombia, y para tal fin utiliza la Encuesta Social de Fedesarrollo (2002) para Bogotá, Medellín, Cali y Barranquilla. El objetivo de este trabajo es el de consolidar un marco teórico que desarrolle el concepto económico del capital social. El modelo teórico planteado concluye que el efecto del capital social sobre el nivel de ingreso es positivo y se transmite a través de un multiplicador del stock del capital humano. En el análisis empírico, el capital social se mide como la participación en asociaciones voluntarias y se adopta el método de variables instrumentales para identificar los determinantes del capital social en Colombia y para examinar la relación causal entre éste y el ingreso. Los resultados sugieren que el capital social horizontal de los hogares afecta positivamente su nivel de ingreso. Se * Profesora de cátedra y asistente de investigación en la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de los Andes.

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“…So far, the studies on social capital in developing countries have been mostly oriented toward the economic and political effects of social capital (ISHAM et al, 2002;TENDLER, 1997) and only a few analyses have examined the mechanisms through which these effects happen.…”

Section: State-civil Society Partnership: Issues For Debate and New Rmentioning

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“…According to Isham et al (2002), only a few studies about societies deprived of trust have underlined the role of social capital in overcoming market failures and building democracy. So far, the studies on social capital in developing countries have been mostly oriented toward the economic and political effects of social capital (ISHAM et al, 2002;TENDLER, 1997) and only a few analyses have examined the mechanisms through which these effects happen.…”

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State-civil society partnership: issues for debate and new researches

Sobrinho

Vasconcellos

2011

Organ. Soc.

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I n this paper we look at the literature related to partnership between state and civil society, especially partnership between public and non-for-profi t organisations. We discuss the differing perspectives of partnership and attempt to identify some of the main theoretical concerns about partnership between state and civil society in the governance context. In this paper, we argue that the historical background of partnership has not been included among factors used in explaining the resort to partnership in governance. In spite of existing analyses showing that partnership brings social benefi ts in their own right, we try to show that there is no evidence that this 'social technology' contributes effectively to bringing power to powerless people and social groups. Most of the literature shows that partnership tries to make relationship between local people and local governance stronger and improve the possibilities for powerless people and social groups to participate in local governance. However, we do not fi nd clear evidence in the literature that partnership allows for a shift in political power. Finally, we show that it is unclear whether the interaction between ordinary people and the state through a participatory process has successfully helped to build social cohesiveness for different social groups. The main contribution of this paper is to expand the understanding of the factors that infl uence the process of partnership between state and civil society (positively and negatively) for local development.Keywords: Partnership. State-Civil Society Partnership. Governance. Empowerment. Social Capital. Parceria entre o Estado e a Sociedade Civil: pontos para o debate e novas pesquisasResumo N este artigo analisamos a literatura de parceria entre o estado e a sociedade civil, em particular sobre a parceria entre as organizações públicas e as organizações sem fi ns lucrativos. Discutimos as diferentes perspectivas do conceito de parceria e objetivamos destacar algumas das principais preocupações teóricas sobre este conceito no contexto da governança. Buscamos mostrar que, em geral, o contexto histórico da parceria não tem sido incluído entre os fatores usados para explicar o seu uso no contexto da governança. Apontamos que, a despeito das análises sobre parceria que indicam que esta traz benefícios sociais, ainda existem lacunas no conhecimento que evidenciem que esta "tecnologia social" contribui efetivamente para empoderar as pessoas e os grupos sociais com menor poder de infl uência. A maior parte da literatura sugere que a parceria objetiva fortalecer a relação entre a população e o governo local e melhorar as possibilidades das pessoas e dos grupos sociais com menor poder de infl uência em participar na governança local. Entretanto, não encontramos na literatura sobre parceria evidências substantivas de que ela se direciona para modifi car a estrutura de poder político. Finalmente, mostramos que não está claro se a interação entre as "pessoas comuns" e o estado, por via de um processo particip...

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Social Capital and Well-being in Developing Countries: An Introduction

Cited by 42 publications

References 13 publications

Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

Institutional Origins of Subjective Well-Being: Estimating the Effects of Economic Freedom on National Happiness

Capital social e ingreso de los hogares del sector urbano en Colombia

State-civil society partnership: issues for debate and new researches

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