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.
Emergency Cardiology
Loukianos S. Rallidis
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- ISBN: 9789963716814
- Publication Date: Jan 2017
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Skandalakis' Surgical Anatomy
John E. Skandalakis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603990741
- Publication Date: Jan 2004
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Poems of the Mind
Constantine P. Karakousis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
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- ISBN: 9789603994206
- Publication Date: Jan 2006
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Regional Oncotherapies
Odysseas Zoras
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603994749
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Advances in Obstructive Jaundice
Michael J. McMahon
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995333
- Publication Date: Mar 2007
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Infections of the Hand & Upper Limb
Konstantinos N. Malizos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995937
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Gray's & Skandalakis' Atlas of Surgical Anatomy and Embryology for General Surgeons
Panagiotis N. Skandalakis
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- ISBN: 9789603997269
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
Ernesto P. Molmenti
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997894
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Advances in Endovascular Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Theodossios P. Perkides
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997917
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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MÃ the Modern Greek
M.L. Batrinos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789607395412
- Publication Date: Jan 1996
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A Better Globalization
Kemal Dervis
The huge costs of armed conflict, the great challenge of state failure, and the slow pace of international actions to address world poverty all point to weaknesses in the global institutional framework and the need for much more effective international cooperation. In this book, Kemal Dervis argues that it is time to build a new international governance structure, breaking away from a system that reflects the post World War II world toward one that is appropriate to the realities and requirements of the 21st century. He proposes a reform of the international institutional architecture based on high-level governance in both the political and economic domains by a renewed and modernized United Nations. Navigating between careful realism and bold idealism, he formulates a coherent vision encompassing both institutional reform and new ideas for policies supported by the specialized institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN agencies themselves, and regional institutions such as the regional development banks. In this plea for "better" globalization, Dervis proposes that, under the legitimizing umbrella of the UN, the specialized institutions deal with the deep causes of the obstacles to poverty reduction and instability rather than their immediate manifestations. He recognizes the great potential that more and freer trade can have for accelerating growth throughout the world. He also stresses, however, that for this potential to be unleashed, the hearts and minds of people must be won by transforming not only the WTO framework but the entire governance of the international economic system into something that is perceived as more legitimate and more responsive to the concerns of the developing world as well as wealthy and creditor nations.
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- ISBN: 9780815717638
- Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Identification Revolution
Alan Gelb
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781944691035
- Publication Date: Jan 2018
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Domestic Determinants of Foreign Policy in the European Union and the United States
Daniel S. Hamilton
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781947661028
- Publication Date: Apr 2018
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Reality Check
John Nellis
Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people—winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups. The studies analyze the changes in public tax revenue from privatized enterprises, shifts in pension and other liabilities, and changes in income of different groups. Contributors include David McKenzie (Stanford University), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Gover Barja (Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz), Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University), Samuel Freije (Universidad de Las Américas in Puebla, Mexico), Luis A. Rivas (Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Nicaragua), Máximo Torero, Enrique Schroth, and Alberto Pasco Font (Group of Analysis for Development [GRADE], Lima), Roberto Macedo (University of São Paulo, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, and Foundation Institute of Economic Research, São Paolo), Antonio Estache (World Bank), Michael Bleyzer and Edi Segura (SigmaBleyzer Corporation), Gary H. Jefferson, (Brandeis University), Su Jian (Brandeis and Peking Universities), Jiang Yuan and Yu Xinhua (National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing), and Malathy Knight-John and P.P.A. Wasantha (Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka).
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286006
- Publication Date: Oct 2005
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Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries
Nicolas van de Walle
In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries have limited infrastructure and human capital and the small size of their markets deter private savings and investment. Aid was meant to help overcome these problems, and these countries received a lot. Yet they have failed to grow. What is wrong? Is foreign aid a solution or part of the problem? What changes might make aid more effective? Given these countries require the financial and technical resources of the West, why haven't aid programs made a difference? Van de Walle blames their economic failure mostly on the venality and incompetence of their political leadership. He analyzes the contradictions and tensions faced by the aid community in poorly run countries, providing a sobering analysis of the perverse effects of aid where the politics is all wrong. Too often, resources provided by foreign aid keep the wrong government in office, and undermine adoption of economic as well as political reforms. Bad government combined with aid, in short, hurts poor countries – and particularly the poorest people in those countries. Despite good intentions, little progress has been made in implementing announced "reforms" of the aid business itself. A constituency for reform is lacking, in the donor countries and in the recipient countries, where those in power benefit from the status quo.
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- ISBN: 9781933286013
- Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Making Markets for Vaccines
Ruth Levine
Making a commitment in advance to buy vaccines if and when they are developed would create incentives for industry to increase investment in research and development. New commercial investment would complement funding of research and development by public and charitable bodies, accelerating the development of vital new vaccines for the developing world. This report presents the proposal from theory to practice, by showing how a commitment can be consistent with ordinary legal and budgetary principles. By creating arrangements that devote the same scientific effort to diseases of the poor as we put into diseases of the rich, we can make a lasting contribution to the defeat of poverty.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286020
- Publication Date: Apr 2005
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