The Role of NGOs
Subtitle: charity and empowerment
By: special editors: Jude L. Fernando, Alan W. Heston
Contributors: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 554
Publisher: Sage
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Non-governmental organizations; Social policy; Charities; Charity organization; Women in development
Notes: "November 1997"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: NGOs between states, markets, and civil society / Jude L. Fernando and Alan W. Heston; title: NGOs' self-defeating quest for autonomy / Bishwapriya Sanyal; title: NGOs, donors, and the state in Bangladesh / David J. Lewis; title: NGOs and civil society: (un)stated contradictions / Shelley Feldman; title: The development gift: the problem of reciprocity in the NGO world / R.L. Stirrat and Heiko Henkel; title: Religion and social change at the grass roots in Latin America / J. Samuel Escobar; title: Wealth equals wisdom? The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in India / Leonard A. Gordon; title: Reinventing NGOs and rethinking alternatives in the Andes / Anthony J. Bebbington / Women, empowerment, and economic development / Rekha Mehra; title: Nongovernmental organizations, micro-credit, and empowerment of women / Jude L. Fernando; title: The trust factor in participation and social education / Pritha Gopalan; title: Nongovernmental organizations and development / Paul Streeten.