Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana

The international community recently adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals by 2030 will require major commitments and efforts. It will also require cooperation between multiple groups and stakeholders, both nationally and internationally. An interesting question is...

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Main Authors:	Parra, Juan Carlos, Joseph, George, Wodon, Quentin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2016
Subjects:	SDGs Sustainable Development Goals social cooperation socio-economic disparity subnational conflicts politics game theory
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25324

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spelling	okr-10986-253242021-05-25T10:54:44Z Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana Parra, Juan Carlos Joseph, George Wodon, Quentin SDGs Sustainable Development Goals social cooperation socio-economic disparity subnational conflicts politics game theory The international community recently adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals by 2030 will require major commitments and efforts. It will also require cooperation between multiple groups and stakeholders, both nationally and internationally. An interesting question is whether religious diversity and the evocation of religion tend to be conducive to “social cooperation” between individuals from various religious traditions. We refer here to social cooperation in a fairly broad sense, but we focus in this paper on specific measures of altruism and trustworthiness between individuals of various different religious affiliations. 2016-11-02T21:41:21Z 2016-11-02T21:41:21Z 2016-09-06 Journal Article The Review of Faith & International Affairs 1557-0274 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25324 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Ghana
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description	The international community recently adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals by 2030 will require major commitments and efforts. It will also require cooperation between multiple groups and stakeholders, both nationally and internationally. An interesting question is whether religious diversity and the evocation of religion tend to be conducive to “social cooperation” between individuals from various religious traditions. We refer here to social cooperation in a fairly broad sense, but we focus in this paper on specific measures of altruism and trustworthiness between individuals of various different religious affiliations.
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author	Parra, Juan Carlos Joseph, George Wodon, Quentin
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title	Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
title_short	Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
title_full	Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
title_fullStr	Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed	Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
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publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana

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