Happy ever after in the marketplace: non‐government organisations and uncivil society

Sheelagh Stewart

Review of African Political Economy, 1997, vol. 24, issue 71, 11-34

Abstract: This following declaration, about NGOs and civil society, is typical of the hallowed tones used to discuss both. This article sets out to examine what I have called the ‘NGO phenomenon’ which has arisen in the last decade. It is not a critique of NGOs per se,but a critique of the way in which development policy has focused on NGOs, to the extent that expectations of NGO performance are unrealistically high and exclude other options for development.

Date: 1997
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