Author Archive:
Mariano Valderrama
Give and Take: What’s the matter with foreign aid?
The aid system is under fire. Donors are blamed for subordinating aid to realpolitik, while recipients are charged with incapacity, bad governance, foot-dragging over reform and dependence. This book sets out David Sogge’s proposals for …
The Third Force: The rise of transnational civil society by Ann M.Florini
Is transnational civil society becoming a permanent and powerful contributor to solving the world’s problems? How sustainable and how desirable is its influence? What role should it play in the future as the world struggles …
Development, NGOs, and Civil Society – Edited by Deborah Eade
Development, NGOs, and Civil Society is a selection of very sharp essays, all previously published in the journal Development in Practice, which analyse the tensions inherent in the role currently played by NGOs. On the …
Civil Society and the Aid Industry – edited by Alison Van Roy
Civil society is widely seen as the agent of change that could potentially cure a range of social and economic ills left by the failures of government and market. Civil Society and the Aid Industry …
