How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in...

Beyond established boundaries: FBOs as developmental entrepreneurs / Jens Koehrsen and Andreas Heuser -- From missionaries to ecumenical co-workers: a case study from Mission 21 in Kalimantan, Indonesia / Claudia Hoffmann -- Mobilising evangelicals for development advocacy: politics and theology...

Participation Pays argues for the need, in any vibrant democracy, for multiple ways of making development more accountable to excluded communities. In doing so, the book invites an understanding of marginalized people not simply as beneficiaries of technical solutions, but - through the work of...