Social capital, county information networks and poverty reduction

Social Capital at the Community Level: An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 81-102

  Goetz, Stephan J ^a,b   Han, Yicheol ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development ^*  (United States)

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