Volume 9, Number 5

• Editorial
  • Editorial 9(5)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Globalisation and homelessness in the USA: building a social movement to end poverty
    Honkala, Cheri; Goldstein, Richard; Thul, Elizabeth; Baptist, William; Grugan, Patrick
  • Privatisation, multinationals, and corruption
    Hall, David
  • Public sector trade unions in the face of privatisation
    Waghourne, Mike
  • Kafka meets Machiavelli: post-war, post-transition Eastern Slavonia
    Large, Judith
• Viewpoint
  • Globalism and nationalism: which one is bad?
    Maleševi?, Siniša
  • Are universal social standards possible?
    Nyerere, Julius K.
  • Globalisation and women in India
    Krishnaraj, Maithreyi
  • Developing countries in the WTO: support or resist the `millennium' round?
    Neumayer, Eric
  • Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquilodoras
    Abell, Hilary
  • Export processing zones: a Caribbean development dilemma
    Dunn, Leith
  • Alternative microfinance institutions and vulnerability
    Castillo, Alfonso
  • Equity in health and economic globalisation
    Schuftan, Claudio
  • Electronic information: promise and peril
    Tan, Michael L.
  • `Third World' perspectives on cyberfeminism
    Gajjala, Radhika
  • NGOs: ladles in the global soup kitchen?
    Commins, Stephen
• Conference Report
  • NGOs in a Global Future
    Trivedy, H. Roy
• Feedback
  • Where Women Have No Doctor
    Helzner, Judith Frye; Casanova Guedes, Alessandra
• Research Roundup
  • Access to graduate education in Bangladesh
    Khan, Niaz Ahmed
• Book Reviews

NGOs: ladles in the global soup kitchen?

Commins, Stephen

The author argues that Northern NGOs are increasingly moulding themselves in the image of, and accepting the impetus of governments to become, a delivery service for global welfare. Commins believes that NGOs can, and should, avoid this by reassessing themselves on a variety of levels, including where they fit in complex emergency situations and how the new vocal presence of Southern NGOs presents a challenge for their role.

This article is freely available as a chapter in Development NGOs and Civil Society.

Keywords: Aid; Civil society; Social sector

   

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