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Global Social Policy, Vol. 3, No. 3, 319-348 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/14680181030033003

International Non-State Actors and Social Development Policy

Paul Stubbs

Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP), University of Sheffield, UK pstubbs{at}zamir.net

This article focuses on two broad groups of actors, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and international consultancy companies (ICCs), and situates them within wider trends in aid and development policies. In the context of a neo-liberal policy agenda, many leading INGOs reorganized so that they became closer to emerging ICCs, as consulting, outsourcing and subcontracting became key features of aid and development policy. Throughout the 1990s, in the context of declining ODA and increasing spending on emergencies, trends towards concentration and oligopolization among private development actors grew apace, fuelling short-termism, projectization, and intense competition within the aid market. The article discusses a new aid and development regime, which is focused on coordinated poverty reduction. It suggests that, notwithstanding its progressive elements, the regime will provide added impetus to existing tendencies towards concentration, oligopolization, mergers and consortia among non-state actors, given that it is being implemented within the core principles of the new public management.

Key Words: non-state actors • new public management • poverty reduction


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