NGOs, States, and Donors Revisited: Still Too Close for Comfort?

World Development

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 707-718

  Banks, Nicola ^a   Hulme, David ^a   Edwards, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Open Democracy and Demos   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil society; Development; Foreign aid; NGOs; Poverty

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; EMPOWERMENT; INTERNATIONAL AID; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POVERTY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84908542521     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.028     Document Type: Article

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