Civil Society by Design: Donors, Ngos, and the Intermestic Development Circle in Bangladesh

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.

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Aid agencies providing direct support to locally run not-for-profit organizations in developing countries transforms both while linking them together.

KENDALL W. STILES is Associate Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Case Histories in International Politics (2nd edition), Global Institutions and Local Empowerment, and Negotiating Debt: The IMF Lending Process.