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20 century 'zuŋ u 'not for profit' empires
"Veni, Vidi, Vici ",Steti - ego adduxit amicis meis

fulfilled by the public sector. As a result, some have described this process as an
outworking of foreign policy (from countries in the Global North) that is redefining the
relationships (in the Global South) between society, the state and external actors.

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...some scholars have argued that NGOs represent a new kind of dependency on

countries from the Global North and stand as a form of neocolonialism towards
countries from the Global South. Similarly, there are ongoing debates concerning the

actual interests and legitimacy of NGOs, considering their links to the states that funded
them in the Global North. For this purpose, the social scientist Sangeeta Kamat pointed

out that "NGO's dependence on external funding and compliance with funding agency
targets raise doubts about whether their accountability lies with the people or with the
funding agencies".

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Similarly, Asef Bayat has argued that "the professionalization of NGOs tends to diminish

the mobilizational feature of grassroots activism, while it establishes a new form of
clientelism". For this purpose, Mike Davis has claimed that the "true beneficiaries" of
what is sometimes referred to as the "participatory turn" have been the thousands of

NGOs operating in the slums of the Global South rather than local populations.
According to Davis, the outcome of the NGO-ization "has been to bureaucratize and

deradicalize urban social movements"

"NGO-ization" 179
Wikipedia
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"There is plenty of evidence that the growth in size and number of NGOs is fed by
increased governmental contributions along with greater contributions from multilateral

developmental organizations such as the World Bank.

On the one hand, these conditions have created additional monies for NGOs and GROs
[Grassroots Organizations] to develop; on the other hand, they risk becoming so

dependent on governments that they have been co-opted and their independence
threatened."

"Non-Governmental Organizations on Development Issues." 180
Richard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, Second Edition,
2002), p.129
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How NGOs in Rich Countries Control their Counterparts in Poor Countries..
and Why they Refuse to Resolve it