Of NGOs and Think Tanks

From ET ‘Citings published on 5^th April, 2010

“Consider that 20 years ago Indonesia had only one independent environmental organisation. Today it has more than 2,000. In Bangladesh, most of the country's development work is handled by 20,000 NGOs; almost all of them were established in the past 25 years. India has well over a million citizen organisations. Historically, these organisations have been defined in the negative — as non-profit or non-governmental organisations. Today they are understood to comprise a new “sector,” variously dubbed the “independent sector,” “non-profit sector,” “third sector,” or, the term favoured in this book, the “citizen sector.”