Authors of ‘How social capital arises in areas’ in Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health, Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno, summarise their chapter.

Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, author of Pandemic Economics, explains that ‘we cannot sit back and relax because we flattened the curve’ and that we ‘need to think about the future after COVID-19’.

M. Kamrul Islam notes the criticisms of the present state of social capital research as: the difficulty of measuring the elements of social capital, thus the need to find better ways to measure it, also, to better address its effect in communities overall. But perhaps most important is the need to find and measure ways to increase it.

Soumyananda Dinda explains that human capital and social capital are closely related and together are useful to realizing economic growth.