Progress in Development Studies

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Porter, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 131-145 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/1464993403ps057ra
© 2003 SAGE Publications

NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana

Gina Porter

Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK, r.e.porter{at}durham.ac.uk

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews with staff in 33 NGOs in Ghana, a country where the NGO sector is heavily dependent on overseas funding, indicate that local understandings about poverty are being overridden by so-called programmes of partnership support that erode local confidence in home-grown ideas about poverty and how to combat it. This is illustrated by reference to the common donor preference for working with groups and for ‘Asian’ development approaches.

Key Words: confidence • Ghana • globalization • NGOs • partnership • poverty


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Information DevelopmentHome page
S. K. Nikoi
Information Needs of NGOs: a case study of NGO development workers in the northern region of Ghana
Information Development, February 1, 2008; 24(1): 44 - 52.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Human Resource Development ReviewHome page
W.-W. Chang
Expatriate Training in International Nongovernmental Organizations: A Model for Research
Human Resource Development Review, December 1, 2005; 4(4): 440 - 461.
[Abstract] [PDF]