Just published by the Kumarian Press:
Global Civil Society, Volume Two Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
"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." --David Valenzuela, President, Inter-American Foundation
"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." --Kathryn Wolford, President, Lutheran World Relief
"Offers new empirical evidence about the increasingly central role of the civil society sector in social and economic development globally." --Ian Johnson, Vice President, Sustainable Development, The World Bank
"Makes a critical contribution to meeting the challenges facing the nonprofit sector in the developing world today." --Srilatha Batliwala, Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
*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. Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Associates US $39.95 / PAPER: 1-56549-184-X August, 2004 / 368 pages