Local Governance and Social Capital: Do chiefs matter?
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Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Political Economy; Public Economics;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-SOC-2015-08-07 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2015-08-07 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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