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From Charity to Change, Brussels to Beijing

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Philanthropic Foundations, Public Good and Public Policy

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This chapter illustrates the scale of foundations, their variety, and their geographical spread. A survey of philanthropic foundations throughout the world would be another book, and one that would be severely hampered by lack of reliable data. Relatively few countries produce systematic data on foundations, and foundations themselves are sometimes happy, for good and not so good reasons, to remain invisible.

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Leat, D. (2016). From Charity to Change, Brussels to Beijing. In: Philanthropic Foundations, Public Good and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48289-1_4

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