Non-governmental organizations have become the new hope of development cooperation. Criticism of official and multi-lateral development assistance is mounting. After more than four decades of international cooperation, there is more poverty in the Third World (with the exception of a few countries) than ever before. It has become clear that existing instruments cannot bring about change. Even the large donor organizations doubt their own ability to solve problems and find their doubts confirmed by internal evaluations. What led to this state of affairs, and is there reason to hope that the NGOs can do a better job? Development assistance started in 1949 with U.S. president Harry Truman’s famous Point Four Programme (named after Point 4 of his inaugural speech in Congress on January 20, 1949) as a continuation of the Marshall Plan. The policy of containment of communism, which was originally restricted to Europe, thus became a global strategy. This origin was the reason that development assistance was geared from the beginning exclusively to government, and not to social groups in the developing countries. The accusation that the U.S.A. as well as the other Western donors were willing to provide development assistance to any government even the most under democratic and corrupt one, as long as it was an ally against communism, was never dropped.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.L. Narasaiah
Dr. M.L. Narasaiah, has been working as Professor and Head, Department of Economics, and Co-ordinator, Department of Management, Sri Krishnadevaraya University of Post-graduate Centre, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. He is a Post-graduate in Economics and has secured first rank. He has received Ph.D. degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, in 1987. He has worked as UGC JRF and UGC SRF. Starting his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, he has been actively engaged in teaching and research for the past twenty-one years. He was associated with the Governent of Andhra Pradesh, Planning Department in their Centre for Planning and Development Studies projects. He has extensively travelled abroad. He has to his credit 190 research papers published in reputed national and international journals, a large number of book reviews and seminar papers besides supervising M.Phil., and Ph.D., studies. He is also working on a number of major research projects. He has frequently participated in national and international conferences. He is the author of 36 books. Prof. M. Lakshmi Narasaiah is a member of large number of national and international associations and is associated with academic bodies in several universities and professional organisations. He has been an acting member of the "Review Committee" for various international economic journals.
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