Southeast Asia Study Group Lecture Series presents: Lecture and Discussion by Prof. Sarah Turner, Department of Geography, McGill University. "It's not what you know, it's who you know"...or as they say in Vietnam, 'A drop of red blood is more than a pond of water'. Social capital has become a key term in development literature since the early 1990s to consider the resources available to individuals and groups through social connections and social relations with others. Social capital has been argued to incorporate key aspects of social organisation such as "trust, norms, and networks" which result in enhanced economic performance. This talk will focus on these connections and relations in two urban locations in Southeast Asia- in Makassar, Eastern Indonesia where small scale enterprises are a common means of making a livelihood, and in Hanoi, Vietnam, where a number of young entrepreneurs are setting up innovative enterprises.