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Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development
Billions of dollars have been spent on participatory development programs in the developing world. These programs give community members an active decision-making role. Given the emphasis on community involvement, one might expect that the effectiveness of this approach would depend on communities' pre-existing social capital stocks. Using data from a large randomised field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital built toilets and reduced open defecation, resulting in substantial health benefits. In villages with low initial stocks of social capital, the approach was counterproductive – fewer toilets were built than in control communities and social capital suffered.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9563
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Project Analysis
Health and Economic Development
- Subject
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participatory development
social capital
sanitation
economic development
Indonesia
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cameron, Lisa A.
Olivia, Susan
Shah, Manisha
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cameron, Lisa A.
- Olivia, Susan
- Shah, Manisha
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015
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