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More About This Textbook
Overview
* Unveils a new Global Civil Society Index
* Provides data on the nonprofit sector in thirty-six countries, fourteen in depth
* Focuses on Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with new material on Europe
* Presents information in easily accessible tables and charts
Volume Two of Global Civil Society builds on the comprehensive overview of the scope, size, composition, and financing of the nonprofit, or civil society, sector established in Volume One. This book is sure to become a crucial source of information on the nonprofit world. A key reference tool for libraries, the book will also be essential reading for nonprofit and foundation leaders, international development agency officials, and public policy makers.
See also Global Civil Society, Vol. 1
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
"One of the most ambitious attempts to measure the size of charity . . . [it] will form the basis for new United Nations guidelines on national accounts allowing countries for the first time to compare philanthropy and volunteering.""This book is full of useful information. It is written in an accessible style - A must for any good third sector collection!"
"Offers new empirical evidence about the increasingly central role of the civil society sector in social and economic development globally."
"Provides perhaps the most useful roadmap we have ever had of the civil society organizations that are mobilizing enormous social energy in the developing world today."
"Practitioners and policy makers will be well served by this growing body of data on the scope, reach, and dynamism of the civil society sector."
"Makes a critical contribution to meeting the challenges facing the nonprofit sector in the developing world today."
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Meet the Author
Lester M. Salamon is Director of the Center for Civil Society Studies, the Institute for Policy Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including The State of Nonprofit America (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Global Civil Society Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector [volume one] (Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999). This last book, the companion volume to Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector [volume two], won the Virginia Hodgkinson Prize, Independent Sector, 2001.
S. Wojciech Sokolowski
Table of Contents
Part One: Overview; 1) Global Civil Society: An Overview; 2) Global Civil Society Index; Part Two: Europe; 3) Italy; 4) Norway; 5) Poland; Part Three: Africa; 6) Kenya; 7) South Africa; 8) Tanzania; 9) Uganda; Part Four: Asia; 10) India; 11) Pakistan; 12) Philippines; 13) South Korea; Part Five: Middle East; 14) Egypt; 15) Lebanon; 16) Morocco; Appendices; A) Comparative Data Tables; B) Methodology and Approaches; C) Local Associates; D) Advisory Committees; E) Funders