Social Capital and Household Welfare Among Anioma People in Nigeria

This book describes how communal values create obligations, which constrain the appropriation of resources embedded in informal networks and social relations among a homogenous people in a rural setting in Nigeria, a country with over 60% of its population especially rural households, living in poverty, in the midst of plenty. Using a unique non-econometric, conceptual and methodological approach, ethnographic and cross-sectional survey data, the book demonstrated how households get ‘drawn back’ by their stock of social capital, which become an encumbrance of a kind and thus reinforce rather than alleviate rural poverty.