This article examines the construction of social capital and its relationship to income generation, based on a long-term ethnographic study of village life in rural Bolivia and the microfinance institution operating there. The author examines the complexity and gendered contradictions implied in the way that social capital is generally viewed to support economic development.
| Asset Type: | Publications |
| Collection: | Other Philippine Publications |
| Subject: | Social capital, Microfinance, Mainstream development interventions, Importance of social factors, Development, Microfinance institutions, Sustainable financial institutions, Income generation |
| Author: | Kate Maclean |
| Publisher: | IISS Develop and Change |
| Publication Date: | 2010 |
