This panel is an effort by the APPIN partners to revisit the legal environment, in four of the twelve participating countries, after a decade. The panel authors have experiences in working for the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Information Network (APPIN; 2000-06) that also looked at the legal and...

The GCC countries (GCC6) have created different forms of government, but not a system of government ‘by the people’ (i.e. ‘democracy as a process’). Nonetheless, being blessed with natural-resource-dependent economy big enough to fulfil all need of the citizens, the GCC6 have ensured...