Subject(s): Non-governmental organizations. NGOs -- Economic development. -- Rural development. -- Conceptualising development : Growth and development, conventional indicators of development, poverty and deprivation -- Organisations in development : Typology of development organisations interpretations of state, reforming state for development, non-profit organisation -- Strategy formulation for development : development strategy, means-ends relations -- Organisational features and work categories, participation, empowerment and capacity building : alternative development, empowerment and gender, social mobilization -- Evaluating development organisations and their work