This book provides a systematic account of the changing priorities, procedures and practices of French NGOs active in overseas development work. It explores whether French NGOs are eschewing wider trends in the Northern NGO sector and uses Resource Dependence theory and a case study of NGO field-work in Cameroon to shed light on these actors.

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' [a] methodical and comprehensive study combines an impressive emperical account...(both in terms of quantity and quality of detail) with an interesting theoretical discussion...The book is carefully researched...In any case, this book should be an essential reading for strudents of French and development studies, especially because of its strong comparative dimension and value.' Modern & Contemporary France

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GORDON CUMMING, having begun his career in the Foreign Office, is now a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, and a specialist in European NGOs and development policy. He has published extensively in journals such as African Affairs and Third World Quarterly. His monograph, Aid to Africa (2001), was well received internationally.

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Book Title: French NGOs in the Global Era
Book Subtitle: A Distinctive Role in International Development
Authors: Gordon D. Cumming
Series Title: French Politics, Society and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230581968
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4524-2Published: 14 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52285-9Published: 01 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58196-8Published: 14 November 2008
Series ISSN: 2946-3750
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3769
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 252
Topics: European Union Politics, European Politics, Development Studies, Political Communication, Political Science

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