Non-Governmental Organizations ? NGO’s ? are crucial to sustainable development projects in many countries. Host Steve Curwood talks about the growth of NGO’s with Julie Fisher, author of The Road from Rio. While many NGO’s have helped to ease the conditions of poverty and environmental degradation that led to their creation in the first place, lack of international funding has prevented them from tackling population-related problems on a large scale.
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