This panel with four presentations report the outcomes of a major comparative research work complied in the Comparative Third Sector Governance. This first of its kind work is an overview of third sector organization (TSO) governance in Asia, especially in the six participating countries (China,...

Abstract: A comparative research work was on ‘Asia's Third Sector: Governance for Accountability and Performance' with the involvement of at least two dozen researchers in six participating countries. It resulted in a book (Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia, Springer, 2008)...

As the authors see it, social forestry in India emerged to serve commercial interests of the economic and social elites of the Indian class and caste hierarchy. They discuss the issue of land ownership and tenure in social forestry, the role of the Forest Department in social forestry, people's...