Ngo Development Of International Economic Relations

As one of the basic forms of social organization, non-governmental organizations (NGOs, which also be called non-profit organizations) first appeared in the 17th century, and developed as an internationally main social force in the last two decades of last century. Currently, non-governmental organizations have been playing a more and more important role in the international economic relations. Questions, such as what NGOs are, what the characteristics of NGOs are, and what effect the NGOs have on the international economic relations, shall be answered in a comprehensive way in this paper.The paper explains the economic reasons for the development of NGOs, introduces in details the activities in terms of alleviating international poverty, protecting labor rights and environment, promoting sustainable development, and coordinating international finance and international trade, and the roles NGOs are playing regarding the coordination of international economic relations, summarizes the concrete ways of how NGOs influence the international economic relations, and provides the theoretical analysis as well.This paper believes that NGO's extensive participation in the international affairs shall encourage the establishment of a new international economic order, which conversely would be based on the further development of NGO itself, and its cooperation with the governmental sector and profit-seeking sector.