Recent publications
NGOs Undermining Democracy
Australian Aid Policy: A Case of Lose/Lose, not Win/Win
Australia’s aid programme is significant, particularly in the Pacific, totalling (in 2000–01 terms) around $50 billion since 1975. It also accounts for a significant and growing share of scarce national...
NGO Project Report: US Foundation Funding in Malaysia
This study examines the funding links between US philanthropic foundations and Malaysian NGOs.
Attack of the Mutant Watermelons: The Campaign against GMOs in the Phillipines
It has often been said that biotechnology will feed a hungry world. That may very well be the case in the future. But at the moment, biotechnology is only feeding hungry activists. As this paper shows, opposing biotechnology is not so much of a...
NGO Way To Go
If NGO activism is to take its place within democratic society, it presumably has to be accountable for its actions. How this is to be achieved, and the nature of the relationship between government and civil society as represented by NGOs, is the...