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Ngos, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?

Ngos, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?

Paperback

Series: International Political Economy

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0333665821
ISBN13: 9780333665824
Publisher: MacMillan UK
Published: Dec 20 1996
Pages: 309
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the last decade the use of non-governmental agencies (NGOs) to promote development and reduce poverty and hunger has become a major feature of development policy. Donors have poured funds into NGOs, governments have allocated them major responsibilities and their number and size has grown. Has this popularity helped them to solve the problems of poverty or has it changed them so that they are now part of the 'development industry' that they used to criticize? This book provides the most detailed study available of the ways in which NGO-State-Donor relationships have changed the role that NGOs play in development. Its papers are introduced by two international experts on the topic and the contributors are leading academics and senior practitioners. The picture that emerges from the general reviews and detailed case studies of African, Asian and Latin American NGOs, is a complex one. However, the authors conclude that there is much evidence that NGOs are 'losing their roots' - getting closer to donors and governments and more distant to the poor and disempowered who they seek to assist.

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