Anirudh Krishna: 2 books
Active Social Capital
Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from sixty-nine villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital is,...
One Illness Away
Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the...