Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana

Porter, G.; Lyon, F.

All Outputs (4)

Decentralizing poverty? reflections on the experience of decentralisation and the capacity to achieve local development in Ghana and South Africa. (2006)
Journal Article
Binns, T., Porter, G., Nel, E., & Kyei, P. (2006). Decentralizing poverty? reflections on the experience of decentralisation and the capacity to achieve local development in Ghana and South Africa. Africa insight, 35(4), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.4314/ai.v35i4.22451

Trust, accountability and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations. (2006)
Journal Article
Mawdsley, E., Townsend, J., & Porter, G. (2006). Trust, accountability and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations. Development in Practice, 15(1), 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/0961452052000321613

Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana (2006)
Journal Article
Porter, G., & Lyon, F. (2006). Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24(2), 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1068/d0303

In the past two decades there has been a growing emphasis within the international development industry on promoting group activity. In this paper we chart how interpretation of the loose concept of social capital has shaped donor and NGO discourses... Read More about Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana.

Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana (2006)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., & Lyon, F. (2006). Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana. In S. Radcliffe (Ed.), Culture and development in a globalizing world : geographies, actors, and paradigms (150-169). Routledge

In this chapter we focus on culture and its complex interconnections with the concept of social capital. Our study is set in the context of recent preoccupations of the World Bank (followed by other donors) with the concept of social capital itself a... Read More about Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana.