Since the book was first published, NGOs have continued to rise in prominence, but our concerns have been little redressed. The new Preface and Afterword to this IPE Classic provide an up to date review of the debates on NGOs and the development sector that consolidate on this argument and look briefly at some of the reactions it has received.

Nicola Banks, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, UK Harry Blair, Yale University, USA John Clark, The Policy Practice, UK Steve Commins, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, USA Thomas Dichter, Aga Khan Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Michael Edwards, Demos, USA Jude Howell, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), UK David Hulme, University of Manchester, UK Jenny Pearce, University of Bradford, UK Mark Robinson, Department for International Development (DFID), UK Roger Riddell, independent scholar Geof Wood, International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), Oxford