Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-254) and index.

Lilliputians or leviathans? NGOs as advocates / Barbara Rugendyke -- Contesting global futures: from charity to challenge -- Charity to advocacy: changing agendas of Australian NGOs / Barbara Rugendyke and Cathryn Ollif -- Speaking out: Australian NGOs and advocacy / Cathryn Ollif -- Towards global equity? : internationalisation, Oxfam and the World Bank -- Global action: international NGOs and advocacy / Ian Anderson -- Oxfam, the World Bank and highly indebted poor countries / Ian Anderson -- A hesitant courtship: engaging the corporate sector -- Confrontation, cooperation and cooptation: NGO advocacy and corporations / John Sayer -- Risks and rewards: NGOs engaging the corporate sector / John Sayer -- Dam(n)ing the Mekong? : banks, states, NGOs and the poor -- Advocacy, civil society and the state in the Mekong region / Philip Hirsch -- Asian development bank-NGO encounters and the Thueng Neum Dam, Laos / Lindsay Soutar -- Making poverty history? / Barbara Rugendyke.