Accountability for Empowerment: Dilemmas Facing Non-Governmental Organizations

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 951-963

  Kilby, Patrick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accountability; empowerment; India; NGOs; South Asia; values

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPOWERMENT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POVERTY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33646930943     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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