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Title: | The non-profit sector in the context of law in development in Africa |
Author: | Ordor, Ada Okoye |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Law (ISSN 0021-8553) |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 45-70 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | NGO development legal systems civil society |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855313000156 |
Abstract: | The non-profit agency typifies the organizational form for civil society activity and this very fact recommends it as a medium for development processes. This article applies the non-profit organization model to the study of law in development, by identifying ways in which non-profit associations of civil society serve as useful channels for development and describing how the law can enhance their contribution. By combining multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of the non-profit sector with selected law in development approaches, the article also constructs an analytical framework for the study of the legal environment of the non-profit sector in Africa. Furthermore, using illustrations from Africa, it draws out nuanced aspects of non-profit sector activity in the developing world, an exercise which is critical to any effort to redefine law in development scholarship in Africa to include its non-profit sector ally. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |