New book maps global scale and composition of non-profit sector
Howard Lake | 29 August 2004 | News
Volume Two of Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector by Lester M. Salamon of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project has been published.
Last month The Economist described this book as “one of the most ambitious attempts to measure the size of charity” around the world. “[It] will form the basis for new United Nations guidelines on national accounts allowing countries for the first time to compare philanthropy and volunteering.”
It has been edited by Lester M. Salamon, Director of the Center for Civil Society Studies, the Institute for Policy Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. The first volume of this study won the Virginia Hodgkinson Prize, Independent Sector in 2001.
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