Please cite this paper as: No. 195 Social Capital: From the Gringo’s Tale to the Colombian Reality by Ben Fine and Juan Pablo Durán Ortiz May 2016 Department of Economics School of Oriental and African Studies London WC1H 0XG Phone: + 44 (0)20 7898 4730 Fax: 020 7898 4759 Department of Economics Working Paper Series ISSN 1753 - 5816 Fine, Ben and Juan Pablo Durán Ortiz (2016), “Social Capital: From the Gringo’s Tale to the Colombian Reality ”, SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 195, The School of Oriental and African Studies.