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
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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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topic SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
social cooperation
socio-economic disparity
subnational conflicts
politics
game theory
spellingShingle SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
social cooperation
socio-economic disparity
subnational conflicts
politics
game theory
Parra, Juan Carlos
Joseph, George
Wodon, Quentin
Religion and Social Cooperation : Results from an Experiment in Ghana
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Ghana
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
author_facet 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
title_sort religion and social cooperation : results from an experiment in ghana
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25324
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