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September 2000 Insights Issue #34

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Sites for Sore Eyes: Online Sources on Social Capital

Social Capital is a relatively new area and few sites relating to developing countries exist. Top of the list for sheer volume of information has to be www.worldbank.org/poverty/scapital/ with its many links to information, research papers, articles, and further sites.

Online resources are mostly concerned with declining social capital in the United States, for example, www.bowlingalone.com/, www.epn.org/issues/civilsociety.html, www.cpn.org/, www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/, and www.social-capital.org/. Further afield, www.crlra.utas.edu.au/ features a case study on farm businesses in Australia.

Examining the links between networks and welfare in Russia, research at the University of Strathclyde, www.socialcapital.strath.ac.uk/, devised a questionnaire to measure social capital in a variety of situations faced by Russian households. Work on collective efficiency for industrial development at IDS features working papers and articles at www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/coleff.html. The University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty, www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/pubs/foc203.pdf offers a few papers on social capital.

Search the newly-launched Sustainable Livelihoods Platform, www.livelihoods.org/, for over 30 documents relating to social capital. Issue #13 of Developing Ideas, iisd.ca/didigest/jan98/default.htm, published by the Canadian Institute for Sustainable Development focuses solely on social capital.

Searching the poverty pages of development-related sites such as www.oneworld.net/ and www.oecd.org/ can be fruitful. The excellent International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development at www.icimod.org.sg/, is well worth a visit - again a search will produce information on social capital-related activities.

Finally, search ELDIS at nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/default.htm and over 300 online documents relating to social capital are at your fingertips.

Jennifer Leavy
IDS

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