Social Capital as a Policy Resource

Social capital as a policy resource.- Measuring social capital and its consequences.- Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism.- Social capital in the Japanese youth labor market: Labor market policy, schools, and norms.- Social capital and labor politics in Japan: Cooperation or cooptation?.- Social capital and power: Entrepreneurial elite and the state in contemporary China.- Trade unions and social capital in transitional communist states: The case of China.- Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia.- Native social capital: The case of Hawaiian sovereignty and Ka Lahui Hawaii.- Indigenous knowledge as intellectual property.- The World Bank and social capital: Lessons from ten rural development projects in the Philippines and Mexico.- Social capital in microfinance: Case studies in the Philippines.- Peasant federations and rural development policies in the Andes.- Social capital formation: The role of NGO rural development programs in Bangladesh.- Beyond community and society: The externalities of social capital building.- About the authors.