Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector, Volume 2

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Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 1999 - Business & Economics - 335 pages
* 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

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Contents

Global Civil Society An Overview
3
Measuring Civil Society The Johns Hopkins
61
Kenya
95
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

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.