Drawing on years of research and direct experience in
Bangladesh, Stiles pulls together theoretical strands from
economics, sociology, and anthropology to help explain an emerging
social structure in the Third World. These structures, which he
calls intermestic development circles, bring together international
donor agencies with various domestic community and private
organizations. In Bangladesh not-for-profit agencies are
dramatically transforming their operation and organizational
cultures, while in turn Western NGOs are themselves changing in
subtle ways. Scholars of development will find Stiles's intriguing
account of the reciprocating effects of extensive interaction,
cooperation, and tensions between international donors and domestic
recipients informative and provocative.
Moving through three discernable phases, each one explainable by
resort to different theories, these development circles grow from
mere trading arrangements to a coherent social structure, separate
from the rest of civil society in Bangladesh. While in the process
of the not-for-profits receiving assistance become wealthier and
more effective, they lose much of their local identity and become
part of a transnational network. At the same time, donors must
recast themselves in order to work effectively with these agencies,
which often creates tension between local and home offices. The
book closes with some recommendations that might attenuate some of
the more troubling effects of this transformation.
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