Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics a...
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Main Author: | Wong, Sam (auth) |
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Format: | Book Chapter |
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Amsterdam University Press
2007
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