After the fall of state socialism about two decades ago, democracy and market economies were assumed to diffuse worldwide. However, the American financial crisis of 2008, leading to a worldwide economic crisis caused increasing criticism of capitalism. As laissez-faire capitalism, Keynesianism...

While initially heralded as the magic bullet for development, NGOs have come under increasing criticism for their failure to deliver development as promised. Despite the plethora of new critiques, little systematic work has theorized how NGOs actually operate within the least developed countries...