The Alms Bazaar : Altruism under fire - non-profit organizations and international development

This is a study of international development NGOs and their Southern partners.

It describes the work and the place of NGOs over the last 25 years and attempts to demystify their role, and to describe some of the lessons that are being learned on a daily basis across a hundred different countries.

The book focuses in particular on the fast-changing relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs, and between NGOs in both hemispheres and their governments.

The book is divided into three parts: the first examines the historical evolution of NGOs, both North and South.

A longer central section explores some of the challenges facing NGOs today, and the third section speculates on the future of the movement, based on evidence over recent years and from the non-profit sector in domestic Northern economies.