NGO Development and the Third World
Contents: Preface. 1. NGOs and Subnational Governments. 2. Regional Contrasts in Policies toward NGOs. 3. Deterritorializing Democracy: The APEC NGO Forums. 4. Third World Economic Empowerment. 5. NGO Advocacy on Labour Rights. 6. NGO and Corporate Social Responsibility. 7. Liberal NGO Model of International Civil Society. 8. The Rise of the NGO for Women and Religious Minorities. 9. Anti-globalization Movement and the Third World. 10. The Third UN. Bibliography. Index.
The term nongovernmental organization, or NGO, was first formalized within the United Nations system in 1945 with its inclusion in Article 71 of the United Nations Charter. Article 71 provides the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations with the power to make suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence. The NGOs are significant world-wide as political and social actors operating in rural and urban sites of Asia and frequently linked in dependent roles with their principle donors in Europe, the US, The IMF, World Bank, multi-national corporations, private banks etc who fix the macroeconomic agenda for the pillage of the Third World. The NGOs used their grass roots rhetoric, organizational resources and their status as democratic human right advocates channeling popular support behind politicians and parties which confined the transition to legal-political reforms not socio-economic changes. NGOs demobilized the populace and fragmented the movements. (jacket)
The term nongovernmental organization, or NGO, was first formalized within the United Nations system in 1945 with its inclusion in Article 71 of the United Nations Charter. Article 71 provides the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations with the power to make suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence. The NGOs are significant world-wide as political and social actors operating in rural and urban sites of Asia and frequently linked in dependent roles with their principle donors in Europe, the US, The IMF, World Bank, multi-national corporations, private banks etc who fix the macroeconomic agenda for the pillage of the Third World. The NGOs used their grass roots rhetoric, organizational resources and their status as democratic human right advocates channeling popular support behind politicians and parties which confined the transition to legal-political reforms not socio-economic changes. NGOs demobilized the populace and fragmented the movements. (jacket)
