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When wasta is called social capital, it is usually not without a touch of irony, based on a tacit assumption that the use of personal ties is divided into negatives and positives, or an honest and dishonest version of the practice. The less-than-noble system assumed has many names, usually in a local and often euphemistic jargon: in Russian, in German, or wasta in Arabic.
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Kropf, A., Newbury-Smith, T.C. (2016). Wasta as a Form of Social Capital? An Institutional Perspective. In: Ramady, M. (eds) The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22201-1_1
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