Civil Society by Design: Donors, NGOs, and the Intermestic Development Circle in Bangladesh FROM THE PUBLISHER
Drawing on years of research and direct experience in Bangladesh, Stiles pulls together theoretical strands from economics, sociology, and anthropology to help explain an emerging social structure in the Third World. These structures, which he calls "intermestic development circles," bring together international donor agencies with various domestic community and private organizations. In Bangladesh not-for-profit agencies are dramatically transforming their operation and organizational cultures, while in turn Western NGOs are themselves changing in subtle ways. Scholars of development will find Stiles's intriguing account of the reciprocating effects of extensive interaction, cooperation, and tensions between international donors and domestic recipients informative and provocative.
SYNOPSIS
Aid agencies providing direct support to locally run not-for-profit organizations in developing countries transforms both while linking them together.
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Roughly 15 percent of all official development assistance to the third world went to international and indigenous non-governmental organizations in the 1990s. Stiles (political science, Loyola U.) argues that this has led to a network of international and domestic ("intermestic") organizations, government agencies, and donor groups that agree on major questions of policy and endeavor to coordinate their activities. These "intermestic development circles" represent the emergence of new forms of organization that should be studied by scholars of international relations and comparative politics, argues Stiles. He presents a framework for their study and looks for corroborating evidence in Bangladesh, drawing sketches of the various actors and their structural contexts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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