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Depoliticizing Development

The World Bank and Social Capital

John Harriss author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:1st Jul '02

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A unique investigation into the notion of social capital, analysing its misappropriation in development economics.

The idea of social capital – meaning, most simply put, 'social connections' – was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now, it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the 'missing link' in international development and has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers. Harriss asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done and finds in its uses by the World Bank the attempt, systematically, to obscure class relations and power.

ISBN: 9781843310495

Dimensions: 234mm x 155mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

158 pages