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Title: | Social Capital, Household Welfare and Poverty in Burkina Faso |
Authors: | Grootaert, Christiaan Oh, Gi-Taik Swamy, Anand |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024) |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 4-38 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Burkina Faso |
Subjects: | social networks household budget poverty Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/1/4.full.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper investigates empirically the importance of social capital, in the form of local associations and networks, for the welfare of rural households in Burkina Faso. It draws on a database (derived from the Local Level Institutions Study, which has conducted household surveys in Bolivia, Indonesia and Burkina Faso) combining standard information on household welfare with multidimensional measures of social capital. The analysis finds that higher levels of social capital are associated with higher household per capita expenditures and better access to credit. The distribution of social capital was found to be more equal than that of other assets. Poor households and those who own little land obtain a higher return from social capital than other households. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |