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Dangerous Correlations
by Masooda Bano
[World Development, Vol 36, Issue 11, Nov 2008, Pgs 2297-2313]
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ABSTRACT: Based on a country-wide survey of 40 civil society organizations in Pakistan, this
paper demonstrates that the policy of channeling development aid through NGOs in
the South in the name of generating social capital and strengthening civil society
is having a reverse impact: organizations reliant on development aid have no
members. The survey indicates a strong correlation between receipt of international
aid and absence of members; it further demonstrates a strong correlation between
aid and rise in material aspirations among leaders of NGOs and lower organizational
performance. The paper raises possibility of a causal relation where aid leads to
material aspirations among leaders of NGOs, which in turn result in lower performance
and an inability to mobilize members...
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