This study aims to provide the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MoCA) of the People's Republic of China an overview of international experience with the use of direct and indirect, consumer and producer side instruments for engaging civil society organizations in the delivery of government-financed...

This Year-in-Review focuses on providing updates to certain issues covered by earlier years’ reports, including: developments in Ethiopia, new tax legislation in India, developments with regard to the definition of public benefit in England & Wales, the changes made in the Societies Law in...

Against the backdrop of the current legal environment for civil society organizations (CSOs/NPOs) in China (describe in the paper), this article outlines current developments that tend to suggest there is an opening of space for operations of those organizations. It has been published in the...

This paper discusses new developments with regard to the regulation of civil society organizations in China that reflect local experiments to eliminate the dual management requirement in a variety of different ways. After a description of how dual management works in Part II and an historical...