Eberly, Don E.

The rise of global civil society building communities and nations from the bottom up / [electronic resource] : Don Eberly. - 1st ed. - New York : Encounter Books, 2008. - xiii, 333 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index.

Forward poverty reduction in the age of globalization -- Civil society : America's most consequential export -- The common elements of community building and nation building: -- The American domestic policy debate -- The great foreign aid debate : America, generous or stingy? -- From aid bureaucracy to civil society -- Toward participation and partnerships -- Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship -- Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid -- America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005 -- Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society -- Understanding and confronting anti-americanism -- Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization -- Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building -- Habits of the heart : building civic community -- Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.


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Civil society.
Voluntarism.
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