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"Cutting-Edge Development Issues for INGOs"

"Cutting-Edge Development Issues for INGOs: Applications of an Asset Accumulation Approach" is a paper by Caroline Moser, Pamela Sparr and James Pickett published by The Brookings Institution in July 2007. The paper examies questions including: What analytical frameworks and operational strategies do international nongovernmentalorganizations (INGOs) use to address poverty in developing countries? Which strategies work best? What are the cutting-edge issues on poverty reduction in development practice and thinking? Are INGOs willingto collaborate in new ways to handle their work in a dramatically changed operating environment?