ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION Brown and Korten (1991) recognized that the decade of the 1980s saw a rapid increase of interest in nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations within the international development community. The Bretton Wood Institutions, the world's biggest financial institutions, have selected nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the implementation of their development projects in developing countries (Beckmann, 1991 ). The expanding role ofNGOs has also been recognized by international agencies, including the Club of Rome and the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (OECD, 1988). In fact, the number ofNGOs registered within the OECD countries grew from 1600 in 1980 to 2970 in 1993 (Smillie and Helmick, 1993).
