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Social capital and human development in Nigeria: the case of Lalupon Community, Ibadan, Oyo State

In recent times, more often than not, social capital has been presented as the virtue through which third world communities may develop. Indeed, the bonds of love, trust, friendship and kinship as social ingredients of social capital have become the salvaging grace for the third world in the face of strangulating economic decline and crisis. Through qualitative methodology, this study utilized key informant interview, in‐depth interview and focus group discussion to generate data at Lalupon – a community noted for preponderance of social capital induced groups. The study discovered that Lalupo…