Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank

by Bebbington,Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781565492158
• ISBN10: 1565492153
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

* Exploration of the nature of bureaucracy and bureaucratic change * Comprehensive examination of debates about social capital within the World Bank * Contributors include both long-time Bank insiders as well as external analysts and observers of the Bank's development policies The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development. These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowermentis simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change. Other contributors: Julie Van Domelen, Michael Edwards, Jonathan Fox, John Gershman, Jeffrey Hammer, David Lewis, Deepa Narayan, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Lant Pritchett, M. Shameen Siddiqi, and Jorge Uquillas.

Author Biography

Anthony Bebbington is Professor at the Institute for Development Policy and Management in the School for Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK.Michael Woolcock is Senior Social Scientist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank.Scott Guggenheim is Lead Social Development Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific region, and in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development network, World Bank.Elizabeth Olson is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
The Ideas-Practices Nexus in International Development Organizations: Social Capital at The World Bank	p. 1
Framing Social Capital
Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy Revisited	p. 31
Scenes From a Marriage: World Bank Economists and Social Capital	p. 63
Enthusiasts, Tacticians, and Skeptics: Social Capital and the Structures of Power	p. 91
Operationalizing Social Capital Ideas
Crises and Contradictions: Understanding the Origins of a Community Development Project In Indonesia	p. 111
Social Capital and Indigenous Peoples Development Programs in Ecuador	p. 145
Social Capital in the Operations and Impacts of Social Investment Funds	p. 177
Evaluating Operations Through a Social Capital Lens
Enabling Social Capital? Lessons From World Bank Rural Development Projects in Mexico and the Philippines	p. 207
Social Capital From Sericulture? Actors, Markets, and Power In a Multi-Agency Project in Bangladesh	p. 239
Interpreting Social Capital Debates at the World Bank
Concepts: Their Contexts and Their Consequences	p. 261
Index	p. 289
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