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NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort? (International Political Economy Series)
Michael Edwards
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Paperback. This text looks at the ways in which NGO-state-donor relationships have changed the role that NGOs play in development. The authors conclude that NGOs are "losing their roots" - getting closer to donors and governments and more distant from the poor and disempowered who they seek to assist. Editor(s): Hulme, David; Edwards, Michael. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JKSR; JPSN; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
International Political Economy Series
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333665824
SKU
V9780333665824
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