Social capital and institutions of poverty reduction in Africa / Osaore A. Aideyan ; with a foreword by Pierre Englebert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research query -- Poverty and policy responses in Nigeria -- Explaining Nigeria's poor record with poverty alleviation: a social-institutional explanation -- Socioeconomic impacts of micro-finance programs on household poverty -- Do the institutional design features and social relations create success? Evidence from LAPO and NACRDB -- Conlusion: institutional design, social relations and poverty reduction outcomes: what have we learned?

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There have been many books written about the issue of poverty in Africa. Most of them look at failed policies and criticize what does not work. This text looks at what does work, and outlines how to implement these effective policies. The question of credibility and strategic behaviors in institutions of poverty reduction is an area that needs to be addressed adequately and the author attempts to deal with it in a pragmatic way. In the academic literature on designating effective institutions of poverty alleviation programs and policies in sub-Saharan Africa, it is rare to find direct assessmen.

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