Alms Bazaar: Altruism Under Fire - Non-Profit Organizations and International Development

Abstract

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Vll AN IRREVERENT GLOSSARY X ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE: THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENLX I Doomsters and cornucopians 7 II Naming the rose: what is an NGO? 22 III Northern NGOs: the age of innocence 37 IV Southern NGOs 60 PART TWO: NGOs TODAY V The pink elephant: empowerment and the status of women 81 VI Disasters: some came running 98 VII Mixed messages: NGOs and the Northern public 124 VIII Management, memory and money 147 PART THREE: NOW THE TRUMPET LX Dependence and independence in the contracting era 167 X Partners 181 XI Act globally: the rise of the transnational NGO 197 XII Democracy, participation and the rights stuff 214 XIII Future conditional 238 NOTES 258 BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX 283

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