02280cam a2200337 a 4500 991106630002406196 20250618074431.0 970401s1997 enk b 101 0 eng 96027848 //r96 9780333665824 (UTL)938508-01utoronto_inst (SIRSI)938508 (Sirsi) AYN-8571 (OCoLC)36717268 DLC DLC DLC CaOTU eng d------ HC60 .N5 1996 NGOs, states and donors : too close for comfort? / edited by David Hulme and Michael Edwards. Basingstoke, UK : Macmillan, 1997. xvii, 309 pages : illustrations, graphs (black and white) ; 21 cm. International political economy series Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Non-governmental organizations Congresses 25492 Economic assistance Congresses 25493 Developing countries Economic policy Congresses 25494 Hulme, David 25495 editor Edwards, Michael 1957- 25496 editor lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-06-18 0 HC60 HUL B02845 2025-06-18 1 2025-06-18 1 4759 4759