| List of Tables | |
| List of Figures | |
| Preface | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Notes on the Contributors | |
| 1 | NGOs, States and Donors: An Overview | 3 |
| 2 | Donors, Democratisation and Civil Society: Relating Theory to Practice | 23 |
| 3 | The State, Popular Participation and the Voluntary Sector | 43 |
| 4 | Privatising the Voluntary Sector: NGOs as Public Service Contractors? | 59 |
| 5 | States without Citizens: The Problem of the Franchise State | 79 |
| 6 | Finding Common Ground in Asia-Pacific Development | 93 |
| 7 | Heavy Hands, Hidden Hands, Holding Hands? Donors, Intermediary NGOs and Civil Society Organisations | 107 |
| 8 | Appeasing the Gods of Sustainability: The Future of International NGOs in Microfinance | 128 |
| 9 | World Vision International and Donors: Too Close for Comfort? | 140 |
| 10 | In Unequal Dialogue with Donors: The Experience of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement | 156 |
| 11 | Elephant Loose in the Jungle: The World Bank and NGOs in Sri Lanka | 168 |
| 12 | The Associative Phenomenon in the Arab World: Engine of Democratisation or Witness to the Crisis? | 191 |
| 13 | NGO-State Relations in Post-Mao China | 202 |
| 14 | The State-NGO Relationship in Sri Lanka: Rights, Interests and Accountability | 216 |
| 15 | NGOs and Development in Brazil: Roles and Responsibilities in a 'New World Order' | 232 |
| 16 | Mice among the Tigers: Adding Value in NGO-Government Relations in South-east Asia | 243 |
| 17 | Between Co-option and Irrelevance? Latin American NGOs in the 1990s | 257 |
| 18 | Conclusion: Too Close to the Powerful, Too Far from the Powerless? | 275 |
| Bibliography | 285 |
| Index | 296 |