Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector, Volume 1* First place winner of Independent Sector’s 2001 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize * Detailed analyses of twenty-two countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East * Exemplifies how global civil society has significantly grown in recent years This is a comprehensive country-by-country analysis of the scope, size, composition, and financing of the global civil society sector throughout the world. The contributors assert that the nonprofit sector is a more significant economic force around the world than is commonly understood, and that substantial differences exist in its overall size and composition in different countries, and that the sector has grown substantially in recent years. The book covers twenty-two countries in Western Europe, Central Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. See also Global Civil Society, Vol. 2 |
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Civil Society in Comparative Perspective | 3 |
Western Europe | 41 |
Finland | 63 |
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22-country average America Anheier Argentina Belgium billion Brazil Center for Civil Central and Eastern civic and advocacy Civil Society Studies Colombia Comparative Nonprofit Sector culture and recreation Czech Republic developed countries Fee-Dominant fees and charges Finland full-time equivalent Germany gross domestic product Helmut K Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Hungary ICNPO Ireland Israel Japan Johns Hopkins Comparative Latin American Lester ment Mexico Netherlands nonprofit activity nonprofit employment nonprofit income nonprofit organizations nonprofit revenue Nonprofit Sector Project Nonprofit share overall Paid employees paid employment pattern of nonprofit percent of nonprofit percent of total Peru philanthropy private giving private philanthropy profit sector project countries public sector payments religion revenue structure Romania share of nonprofit share of total shown in Figure Slovakia social services Social svcs Sources of nonprofit Spain third sector tions total employment total nonagricultural employment U.S. dollars voluntary Volunteer inputs Western Europe