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Civil Society

In: Fighting Poverty Together

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  • Aneel Karnani

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As we have seen, in the popular stereotype, public organizations are unresponsive, bureaucratic, inefficient, and corrupt. For-profit businesses are criticized for being exploitative, rewarding greed, lacking in human compassion, and producing socially unjust outcomes. Whether true or not, these perceptions have led to an increasingly passionate search for a new approach and a proliferation of new buzzwords: “third way,” “new middle,” “social innovation,” and “social entrepreneurship.” It is essentially a hope that social entrepreneurship will occupy the space between the market and the state, offering an effective combination of private structure and public purpose.1 A vast array of organizations—hospitals, universities, professional organizations, development organizations, environmental groups, community associations, soup kitchens, and many more—do try to fulfill societal needs.

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  • Aneel Karnani, 2011. "Civil Society," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fighting Poverty Together, chapter 0, pages 233-254, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-12023-5_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230120235_8
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