The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations. Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.
The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation that supports member countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s aims of development, democracy and peace. It publishes authoritative, evidence-based research and knowledge products for policymakers, academics, professionals and wider publics across the world. Our areas of focus and expertise include small and developing states; environment and climate change; democracy, law and government; and social issues concerning young people, gender, health and education.
The Commonwealth at the Summit, Volume 3
Contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1997 and 2005. This volume covers the meetings held in Edinburgh (1997), Durban (1999), Coolum (2002), Abuja (2003) and Malta (2005). It carries a foreword by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850928570
- Publication Date: Nov 2007
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Fairer Fishing?
Martin Tsamenyi
Considers the likely effects on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries of the European Union's Directive on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, planned to be implemented from 2010.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850928990
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Financial Intermediation in Small Island Developing Economies
Maxwell J. Fry
This study examines the problems and policies for financial intermediation in small economies, including financial institutions, measures their efficiency and policy frame, and analyses the financial structure in the Bahamas, Barbados, Fiji, Hong Kong, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands and Western Samoa.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850922080
- Publication Date: Sep 1981
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The Commonwealth at the Summit, Volume 1
This volume contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1944 and 1986. As these communiqués testify, the small association of old Commonwealth countries of 1944 has grown into a worldwide multiracial partnership.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850923179
- Publication Date: Jan 1987
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Rooting Cuttings of Tropical Trees
K.A. Longman
This book offers information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees. It is suitable for a small-holder and an experienced forester who are interested in growing trees in both humid and drier areas.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850923940
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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Preparing to Plant Tropical Trees
K.A. Longman
This Manual is the fourth in a series of readable, well illustrated handbooks for propagating and planting tropical trees. Manual 4 is concerned with the key choices that lie between propagation of good planting stock, and its planting and successful establishment.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850924183
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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Compendium of Election Laws, Practices and Cases of Selected Commonwealth Countries, Volume 1, Part 2
Carl W. Dundas
This compendium presents the constitutional provisions and election laws of a number of selected Commonwealth countries in a user-friendly way.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780850925425
- Publication Date: Jan 1998
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Personnel Records
Piers Cain
In providing some firm ground on which those public servants, who are faced with the challenge of public service reform, can stand while assessing the options available, the Public Service Thematic Series marks a milestone in the debate concerning specific areas of management of the public service.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850925524
- Publication Date: Jan 1998
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Planting and Establishment of Tropical Trees
David Upton
A guide for non-specialist on how to plant and establish the right trees for any particular area. With line drawings and diagrams, it shows how to select the specimens, planting methods, and how to ensure that newly planted trees thrive.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850927085
- Publication Date: Mar 2008
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Making Democracy Work for Pro-Poor Development
Manmohan Singh
Starting from the premise that democracy is more than simply a matter of universal suffrage and the holding of regular multiparty elections, and that development is about much more than growth of GDP, this Report focuses on how to make democracy work for pro-poor development and on development policies that in themselves uphold.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850927818
- Publication Date: Oct 2003
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Going the Distance
Happy Gingras
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780940017511
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Grade Less, Smile More
Patricia D. Lesko
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780940017528
- Publication Date: Jan 2019
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Wake ‘Em Up!
Julie Smith
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780940017559
- Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Maritime Disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean
Roudi Baroudi
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780960012732
- Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 21
Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics is a flagship publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat highlighting the development indicators of Commonwealth Small States and disseminating knowledge of their economic performance.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781785599996
- Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Partners in Prosperity
Daniel S. Hamilton
One of the most dangerous deficits facing transatlantic relations today is not in trade, payments, or military capabilities. It is a deficit in understanding the vital stake Americans and Europeans have developed in the health of their economic relationship. Globalization is happening faster and reaching deeper between Europe and America than between any other two continents. The transatlantic economy generates roughly $3.5 trillion in total commercial sales a year and employs over 12 million workers in mutually "insourced" jobs. This book maps the increasingly dense web of investment, trade, and jobs that connects Europe's regions to America's states. It traces the impact of NAFTA and EU enlargement on transatlantic economic flows. It tracks intercontinental "connectivity" in the new knowledge economy, and it sets forth areas in which Europe and America continue to be global pathfinders. In the context of today's debates about globalization and transatlantic drift, this book offers some unanticipated and counterintuitive connections that have important policy implications.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332559
- Publication Date: Jun 2004
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