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Social capital and related concepts have application and relevance to a wide range of topical issues and current events. This category explores how social capital is important for these issues and events.

Social capital in the formation of local institutions and their contribution to territorial governance

December 14, 2020 2 Comments General
Abstract This article analyzes the importance of social capital in the emergence of local institutions and the contribution of these institutions to the governance of ...
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Applicability of Social Capital by the World Bank in Brazilian Poor Spaces

November 29, 2020 No Comments General
Since the end of the 1990s, at the request of the World Bank, four scientists – Christiaan Grootaert, Deepa Narayan, Veronica Nyhan Jones, and Michael ...
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New Zealand’s pandemic response: solidarity in a post-truth world

April 22, 2020 1 Comment General
New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been distinctly different to many developed countries that have been plagued by inaction, divisiveness, misinformation, blame and ...
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What does the COVID-19 pandemic tell us about our society?

April 2, 2020 4 Comments General
Why has COVID-19 become a pandemic? There are lots of other pathogens that have not become so prevalent. Why has this virus rapidly spread to ...
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What is social capitalism?

March 30, 2020 10 Comments General
Social capitalism is any capitalist system that is structured with the ideology of liberty, equality, and justice. Instead of aiming to accumulate only economic forms ...
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Social connection and the COVID-19 pandemic

March 18, 2020 3 Comments General
With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, many people are now facing the prospect of various forms of social isolation in the ...
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Social isolation during a pandemic

March 17, 2020 No Comments General
There are significant barriers to the effective adoption of technology to alleviate social isolation resulting from COVID-19 ‘social distancing’, particularly among those people who were ...
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