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A concise, comprehensive and critical introduction to the subject of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and development. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practi…
Introduction: the invisible aid sector / David Tittensor et Mathew Clarke -- Is islam an obstacle for progress? The analysis of Said Nursi / Salih Yucel -- Zakat and poverty in Islam / Jan Ali -- The changing nature of Islamic mission: the cases of the Gülen Movement and Tabligh…
Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' versus 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly d…
This volume examines how foreign aid has influenced democratic transitions and consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa.
"Private foundations and development partnerships, American philanthropy and global development agendas"
With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies. The country's experience since then illustrates some of the most pressing problems encountered by African c…
What are the poverty reduction goals of the European development cooperation agencies? This book examines the credibility of their actual record in terms of their commitment and approaches to poverty reduction. The poverty impact of their aid programmes and their good and bad pr…
