ABSTRACT
In this chapter social capital is considered to be part of the total assets belonging to a community, together with physical capital and human capital. Therefore capital, as composed of different parts and owned in a community (by single members or by the community as a whole) contributes to the development level reached by the community itself. In economics and in other social sciences, the social dimension of capital cannot be neglected in the explanation of the performance of a community and the outcomes that the community can expect.
