SOCIAL CAPITAL

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPHIRE UNIVERSITY
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OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA


COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ASSIGNMENT : SOCIAL CAPITAL
PROGRAMME : MSC. CED
COURSE TITLE : PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CODE : ICD 533
CENTRE : ARUSHA

STUDENT NAME : KASSIAN SIA
LECTURERS NAME: DR. JUMA KADUANGA
SUBMISSION DATE: 22 OCTOBER 2007






















INTRODUCTION:SOCIAL CAPITAL
This web site is the World Bank’s link with external partners, researchers, institutions, governments and others interested in understanding and applying social capital for sustainable social and economic development. It aims to:
improve our understanding of social capital and its contribution towards poverty reduction, social stability and economic development;
focus on the implications for program and policy design and methods for operationalizing the concept of social capital in a diverse range of interventions, within and beyond the World Bank;
provide a forum for cross-discipline dialogue for clarifying the conceptual framework, measures and development applications related to social capital;
facilitate coordination and dissemination of information;



Social capital refers to the norms and networks that enable collective action. Social capital is a core concept in business, economics, organizational behaviour, political science, and sociology, defined as the advantage created by a person's location in a structure of relationships. It explains how some people gain more success in a particular setting through their superior connections to other people.-wikipedia encyclopaedia