NGOs, Politics and Grassroots Mobilisation: Evidence from Bangladesh
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...…and the poor (Awio et al., 2011); efficient low-cost operations, e.g. micro-credit programmes (Hulme & Moore, 2007); promotion of sustainable development (O’Dwyer & Unerman, 2008); and their potential for organising and representing civil society (Devine, 2006; Gray et al., 2006; Lehman, 2007)....
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...…social contexts.11 Thus we have good evidence that despite the prevalence of hierarchically structured relationships that determine the basis for all human action, people do achieve goals at interpersonal (del Franco, 2005), inter-familial (White, 1992) and inter-group (Devine, 2006) levels....
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...Bangladesh government has changed its policy to redistribute fallow land to landless households since 1987, although the system is still controlled by local politicians and large landowners [85]....
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...As the authors note, ‘One can be autonomously dependent on another, willing to rely on his or her care, particularly if the other is perceived as supportive and responsive (Chirkov et al. 2003: 98)....
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...This goal has long roots in the liberal political tradition and rests on a framework in which organised, voluntary and autonomous social life is seen as pivotal to the task of building and consolidating democratic spheres (Diamond 1994)....
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...Similarly, while exploring relationships of reciprocity and dependency between shantytown dwellers in Brazil, Scheper-Hughes (1992) notes that in cases where residents are # completely bereft of relatives, neighbours feel morally obliged to send someone to live with them so that they do not remain…...
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...Similarly, while exploring relationships of reciprocity and dependency between shantytown dwellers in Brazil, Scheper-Hughes (1992) notes that in cases where residents are # completely bereft of relatives, neighbours feel morally obliged to send someone to live with them so that they do not remain alone....
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