The Search For Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank
  • 2006/301 pages
  • A Kumarian Press Book

The Search For Empowerment:

Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank

Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Olson, editors
Paperback: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-56549-215-8
Focusing on debates within the World Bank about the value of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development, the contributors to this volume offer both an ethnography of a huge development organization and an insightful look at the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change.
Anthony Bebbington is professor in the School for Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. Michael Woolcock is senior social scientist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Scott Guggenheim is lead social development specialist in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank. Elizabeth A. Olson is lecturer in geography at Lancaster University.

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