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BMJ, 2001 In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in
T, Welsh, M, Pringle
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Social Sciences, 2022 Measuring social capital has been a challenging task over the past few decades, and, still, many of its dimensions and manifestations have not been thoroughly or evidently explored.
Nectarios Oudeniotis +1 more
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Expectation vs Reality: Cosmopolitan and Insular Social Capital among Malaysian Chinese Youth
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015 This article discusses the form of social capital present among Malaysian Chinese youth, comparing across those who are Chinese-medium educated and English-medium educated.
Rachel Chan Suet Kay +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background To improve the efficiency of the use of medical resources, China has implemented medical alliances (MAs) to implement a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system. The willingness to undertake a first visit to primary care institutions (PCIs)
Haiyan Song +3 more
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FERTILITY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social
Coppier, Raffaella +2 more
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The Expert Witness in Criminal Cases in France, Germany, and Italy [PDF]
, 1935 This paper addresses the impact of social capital on the status attainment process of young people at the start of their careers and examines how social class, gender and ethnicity affect the accumulation of social capital and thereby labour market ...
Ploscowe, Morris
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Measuring religious social capital: the scale properties of the Williams Religious Social Capital Index (WRSCI) among cathedral congregations [PDF]
, 2008 The theoretical construct of social capital remains contested in terms of conceptualisation and measurement. The present paper follows the convention of distinguishing between trust, bonding, bridging and linking social capital, to conceptualise how ...
Williams, Emyr
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Can environmental governance benefit from an ICT-social capital nexus in civil society? [PDF]
, 2011 Although the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to foster social capital in civil society has been duly acknowledged, few studies have empirically explored the ICT-social capital nexus in the context of community organizations.
Dhakal, S.P.
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SOCIAL CAPITAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2006 To address the conditions of poverty and underdevelopment in the country, the South African government has accepted the social development approach as policy for delivery of social services. Social welfare organisations and other similar social service
Anna Nieman
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International financial inclusion: Multidimensional determinants of access to saving and credit [PDF]
Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2019 This work assesses quantitatively the determinants of two of the main indicators of financial inclusion: savings account ownership and credit access. Through the use of a dynamic panel, this work verifies that on the supply side, formal saving requires ...
Lilianne Isabel Pavón Cuéllar
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