摘要：The recent focus on NGOs as alternative forms of service delivery in education raises a fundamental question: Can NGOs deliver a higher quality or different type of service than that of market-based donors (multilateral and bilateral development agencies) who focus on stabilizing and growing markets. The potential appears good for more locally relevant and more targeted service delivery given a wide range of NGO structures and possibilities. But can NGOs withstand the pressures of a profit-driven global economic system. Two primary problems present themselves. First, community-based funding is frequently weak and unreliable relative to funding driven by profits. Second, when multilateral or bilateral organizations become primary funders of NGOs, the goals of such organizations (largely market-focused) can be adopted easily by the local NGO. Such is the power of money to dominate agendas
