NGOs' self-defeating quest for autonomy

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 554, Issue , 1997, Pages 21-31

  Sanyal, Bishwapriya ^a  

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EID: 0031494752     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716297554001002     Document Type: Article

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23. For a detailed description of these successful cases, see Bishwapriya Sanyal, Cooperative Autonomy: The Dialectic of State-NGOs Relationship in Developing Countries, IILS Research Report no. 100 (Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies, 1994), pp. 44-48.