The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly
half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being …

The article describes the latest developments of Islamic charities and their role as major non-
state actors in Indonesia's field of social welfare. It considers debates about the practices of …

In 2006, an article in the Economist magazine introduced the term “philanthrocapitalism” to
describe a trend sweeping philanthropic institutions: the tendency for a new breed of donors …

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length
anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet …

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence,
many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material …

Over the past decade a new form of philanthropy has emerged, termed
'philanthrocapitalism'. Champions of philanthrocapitalism suggest that private giving can fill …

Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic
corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and …

Over the past 20 years, the perception of tourism as an effective contributor to socio-
economic development in the developing world has propagated, with many viewing tourism …

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors
in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume …

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been
slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China …