The Emerging Nonprofit Sector: An Overview

This book surveys the operations of the non‐profit sector in 12 countries chosen to represent the large, wealthy western economies, and also the developing countries in various parts of the world. Complete empirical data have been compiled for seven of these countries. “Nonprofit” translates approximately to “charitable organizations” in UK parlance. The book is the first in a series on the non‐profit sector being published by Manchester University Press, many concentrating on specific countries, whereas this work is a global overview, using representative countries as examples.

Starting at the beginning, the preliminaries include a foreword on the series, a short...