This paper provides a critical review of the progress in understanding the linkages between
transport disadvantage and social exclusion. It follows earlier work in proposing social …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …

While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socio-
economic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

This paper presents evidence that “social capital” matters for measurable economic
performance, using indicators of trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a …

It is only a four-hour flight between Madras and Singapore, but difference between the
conditions surrounding one's departure fr the former and arrival at the latter can make the …

In an increasingly globalised world, economic and cultural imperatives can be seen as two
of the most powerful forces sha** human behaviour. This book considers the relationship …

Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a
comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate equations designed to explore the social …

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust
each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …