About the product
This book contains 19 papers authored by renowned specialists on the subject of social capital and poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The majority of the papers focus on social capital and how it relates to the development process, poverty, public policy, the gender perspective and rural areas. Other papers explore the concept of social capital and strategies for its development. The theoretical and analytical approaches used in the articles, as well as the disciplines on which they are based, cover a broad spectrum. This diversity serves to enrich the text as a whole making it a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, students and experts on the ground involved in the development of social capital theory.
