El capital social : De la teoría a la práctica el banco mundial en el campo mexicano

This work explores various interaction processes among the Mexican state, the World Bank and a series of Mexican social and civil actors, from the perspective of the evolution of six rural development projects financed by the World Bank during the 1990s. The paper documents the institutional dynamics of rural projects that were implemented after WB's socio-environmental reforms that were intended for poverty eradication or categorized as "green" programs. Outcomes reveal that goals were seldom attained, being therefore impossible to promote institutional contexts favorable to social capital's strengthening of peasant and indigenous autonomous organizations. Approaches aimed at promoting social capital should identify obstacles since the very beginning, and transcend or neutralize them in order to foster the "virtuous circles" that generate social capital accumulation.