Social Capital Assessment Tool

Can some agreement not be reached about which are the best assessment tools to apply? Will the measurement of social capital necessarily have to vary by region and country? Cannot some common method of measurement be developed that can be applied uniformly across different countries and regions of the world? This paper addresses these questions and seeks to provide some answers based on the evidence that is available at this time.2 Part I of this paper reviews the measurement literature, while Part II presents a set of tools that are being developed in response to a demand for a uniform methodology.