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.
Achieving an AIDS Transition
Mead Over
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. Donors are giving less than they had been, even though infections continue unabated, and the number of people dependent on treatment rises each year.This book proposes a feasible medium-term objective for AIDS policy: achieving an "AIDS transition," that is, keeping AIDS deaths down by sustaining treatment while pushing new infections even lower, so that the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS begins to decline. How? Through a new, incentive-driven strategy to improve HIV prevention and a sustained effort to get the most from AIDS treatment.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286389
- Publication Date: Aug 2011
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The Governor's Solution
Todd Moss
Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his firsthand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982.Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous difference—even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.
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- ISBN: 9781933286709
- Publication Date: Nov 2012
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The Rebirth of Education
Lant Pritchett
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.
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- ISBN: 9781933286778
- Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Analytically Oriented Thomism
Miroslaw Szatkowski
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783868385601
- Publication Date: Oct 2016
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Atlas of Radiology of the Traumatized Dog and Cat
Joe P. Morgan
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930085
- Publication Date: Sep 2004
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Ophthalmology for the Veterinary Practitioner
Frans C. Stades
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930115
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Anatomy of the Dog
Klaus-Dieter Budras
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930184
- Publication Date: Aug 2007
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Diagnostic Imaging of Exotic Pets
Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930498
- Publication Date: Oct 2010
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Clinical Endocrinology of Dogs and Cats
Ad Rijnberk
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930580
- Publication Date: Oct 2009
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Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Horse
Michael Röcken
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899936803
- Publication Date: Jul 2015
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Comprehensive HVAC System Design
N.C. Gupta
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789385919312
- Publication Date: Mar 2016
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Thermo-Mechanical Simulation and Processing of Steels
B.K. Jha
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789385919916
- Publication Date: Mar 2016
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The Architecture of Lucknow and Oudh, 1722-1856
Banmali Tandan
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780955788000
- Publication Date: Mar 2008
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The Transatlantic Economy 2020
Daniel S. Hamilton
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781733733984
- Publication Date: Mar 2020
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Effectiveness of Aid for Trade in Small and Vulnerable Economies
Massimiliano Calì
This Economic Paper presents the first analyses of the use and effectiveness of Aid for Trade (AfT), the initiative to help developing countries boost their involvement in the global economy. It examines the extent to which SVEs have been able to access AfT funds and to what extent this assistance has helped them to improve their trade performance.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290487
- Publication Date: Mar 2011
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Small States
This unique annual collection of key economic and statistical data on states with fewer than 5 million inhabitants is an essential reference for economists, planners and policy-makers working on issues of concern to small states. This volume contains 68 tables covering development indicators and 4 articles focusing on the green economy.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290791
- Publication Date: Dec 2012
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