Research Agenda for Social Capital in Economic Development

Edited by İbrahim Semih Akçomak, Professor of Economics, Science and Technology Policy Research Centre, Middle East Technical University, Turkey and Jesús Peiró-Palomino, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Applied Economics II, University of Valencia, Spain

• ContentsPART I SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SOCIETY: GENERATION PATHS AND LINKS1 Social capital and economic development: a bibliometricanalysis 22 Social capital and informal economy 243 Role of non-governmental organizations in building socialcapital: the case of Slovakia 494 Social capital in microfinance: measures, methods andoutcomes 70PART II SOCIAL CAPITAL, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANDINEQUALITY: SIMULTANEITIES AND INTERACTION WITHFORMAL INSTITUTIONS5 Social capital and other transaction capital in economicdevelopment: Important ontologies in early-stage research 976 The simultaneity of social infrastructure spending, social capitaland economic development in Ukraine 1187 Social capital and socio-economic development: a networkperspective 1508 The trust paradox 1729 Linking social capital and economic development: new evidencefrom European regions 196PART III SOCIAL CAPITAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING:CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR SUCCESSFULIMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES10 Enhancing rural prosperity through social capital 22111 The role of social capital in building community droughtresilience in arid and semi-arid farming regions 24312 A theoretical framework for the assessment of institutionsof citizen involvement in public policy, social capital, andhuman development 25813 The role of social capital in economic development: aproposed research agenda based on moving theory topractice 276

‘The nexus of social capital and economic development has been the subject of comprehensive academic research over the years but its application in practice has been kept waiting. In this book, Akçomak and Peiró-Palomino have collected a new generation of researchers that put new issues on the social capital research agenda.’