Whither the Third Sector? A Response to Estelle James

Voluntas

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-211

  Fowler, Alan ^a,b  

^a Intl NGO Train and Research Centre   (Ethiopia)

^b NONE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Civil society; Comparative research on development NGDOs; International development; Nonprofit theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009009565     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022085516915     Document Type: Article

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