The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The 2009 Yearbook explores the framings, strategies and impacts of a range of actors on poverty and its alleviation. The overarching question is to whether such actors, in pressing for poverty alleviation actually achieve anything/empower the poor, or simply aid wealthy states in maintaining the status quo. The contributors are diverse, including scholars and practitioners from India, America, the UK, Australia, Thailand, and Mali.

Introduction - Mary Kaldor, Ashwani Kumar & Hakan Seckinelgin1. Poverty Discourses and Global Civil Society - Harsh Mander, Virginia Xaxa, Lakshmi Lingam & Amita Bhide2. Global Poverty Statistics and Civil Society - Sally Stares3. Bringing Justice and Culture Back in: Global Action for Local Livelihoods - Smitu Kothari4. Global Organisation in Civil Society: the Effects On Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte & Jill Timms5. Global Civil Society and Budget Participation - Celine Tan6. Faith-Based Action in Development and Humanitarian Work - Khaled Mansour and Heba Raouf Ezzat7. Living in the Shadows: Injustice, Racism and Poverty in the India Diaspora - Vinay Lal8. Economic Migrants, the Banana Supply Chain, and the London Living Wage: Three Cases of Global Civil Society Activism on Poverty - Laurie Berg & Anna Samson, Pamela K Robinson, & Jane Wills9. Viewing Restricted: [Re]Presenting Poverty - Jessica Dimmock, Mishka Henner, Sharron Lovell, Subhash Sharma & Ali Taptik10. Global Civil Society Forums and Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte, Renate Bloem, Richard Samans, Kumi Naidoo, Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Virginia Vargas, Barry Aminata Toure & Chandan SenguptaConclusion - Marlies Glasius & Jan Aart ScholteIntroducing Futures Research: Forecasting and Scenarios - Helmut Anheier & Hagai KatzData ProgrammeChronology