Social capital as a policy resource -- Measuring social capital and its consequences -- Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism -- Social capital in the Japanese youth labor market: Labor market policy, schools, and norms -- Social capital and labor politics in Japan: Cooperation or cooptation? -- Social capital and power: Entrepreneurial elite and the state in contemporary China -- Trade unions and social capital in transitional communist states: The case of China -- Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia -- Native social capital: The case of Hawaiian sovereignty and Ka Lahui Hawaii -- Indigenous knowledge as intellectual property -- The World Bank and social capital: Lessons from ten rural development projects in the Philippines and Mexico -- Social capital in microfinance: Case studies in the Philippines -- Peasant federations and rural development policies in the Andes -- Social capital formation: The role of NGO rural development programs in Bangladesh -- Beyond community and society: The externalities of social capital building -- About the authors.