 Learning from South Asian ‘Successes’Shahrukh Rafi Khan
South Asia Economic Journal, 2006, vol. 7, issue 2, 157-178 Abstract: India's economic success over the last decade and a half, and more recently Pakistan's economic progress under the military government, have drawn attention. While these and information technology in India may be the main South Asian success stories drawing attention currently, there are a number of other successes that have been around long enough to be considered sustainable. Successes are defined as initiatives, interventions, cases or models that have been sustained for several decades, can be replicated, scaled up, have had a significant impact and exported to the rest of South Asia or beyond. The ones documented in this article rely on the tapping of social capital. This article explores various conceptualizations of social capital and argues that the latter is an important reason for the three ‘successes’ considered. It is further argued that a good understanding of the relevant concepts of tapping social capital will enable development via social mobilization, participation, collective action, public-private and local-foreign partnerships. Keywords: JEL: Z13; JEL: O14; JEL: O53; JEL: O38; Rural Development; Social Capital; Social Mobilization; Participation; Collective Action; Public-Private and Local-Foreign Partnerships (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:soueco:v:7:y:2006:i:2:p:157-178 DOI: 10.1177/139156140600700201 Access Statistics for this article More articles in South Asia Economic Journal from Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka |
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