| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 333 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Forward poverty reduction in the age of globalization -- Civil society : America's most consequential export -- The common elements of community building and nation building: -- The American domestic policy debate -- The great foreign aid debate : America, generous or stingy? -- From aid bureaucracy to civil society -- Toward participation and partnerships -- Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship -- Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid -- America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005 -- Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society -- Understanding and confronting anti-americanism -- Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization -- Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building -- Habits of the heart : building civic community -- Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Civil society.
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Civil society. |
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Voluntarism.
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Voluntarism. |
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Public welfare.
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Public welfare. |
| ISBN |
9781594032141 alkaline paper |
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1594032149 alkaline paper |
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