Grassroots organizations and NGOs in rural development: Opportunities with diminishing states and expanding markets

摘要: Abstract This article undertakes to deal systematically with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and grassroots (GROs), usually treated as a residual category. Ten levels for development decision making action are identified in the tradition of central place theory. Three these considered ″local″ or ″grassroots″ because their collective possibilities. Then, three sectors delineated, instead usual two. NGOs part sector which differs from public private theoretically consistent ways. A careful distinction is made between institutions organizations, conflated literature. Examples accelerated rural through discussed form Asia, Africa, Latin America.