France, America and the World

Daniel S. Hamilton

Changes in French and American domestic politics, together with dramatic upheavals on the international scene, offer both opportunities and challenges for a fresh start in the bilateral relationship between France and the United States. In this volume authors and practitioners from both countries offer their perspectives on joint challenges in areas ranging from global economic and security issues to questions of stability in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Africa, as well as relations with Russia. The book includes recommendations for a more effective bilateral partnership.Topics and contributors include Major Strategic Challenges Leo Michel (Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University) and Bruno Tertrais (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)The Global Economy Jean-Francois Jamet (World Bank) and Daniel S. Hamilton (Center for Transatlantic Relations) Russia Celeste Wallander (American University) and Maxime Lefebvre (Permanent Representation of France to the European Union)The Middle East and the Mediterranean Jean-Pierre Filiu (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), and Ian Lesser (German Marshall Fund of the United States)Sub-Saharan Africa Nathalie Delapalme (General Inspector of Finance, Paris) and Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown University)Copublished with the Robert Schuman Foundation

  • Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780980187199
  • Publication Date: Oct 2009
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Novo Nordisk

Kurt Jacobsen 

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9788712073901
  • Publication Date: Jan 1970
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From Quanta to Gravitation

Helge Kragh

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9788773044490
  • Publication Date: Jan 1970
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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 1

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: 9780850924633
  • Publication Date: Jan 1996
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The Commonwealth at the Summit, Volume 2

This volume contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1987 and 1995. It is a companion to volume 1 published in 1987. It carries a foreword by the former Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850925104
  • Publication Date: Jan 1997
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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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Promoting Industrial Competitiveness in Developing Countries

Sanjaya Lall

As developing countries have started to open up their economies, concern about competitiveness has spread to their policy makers. Their relative competitiveness as production and investment sites has become a prime focus of development policy.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926231
  • Publication Date: Oct 1999
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Beekeeping as a Business

Richard Jones

Beekeeping requires little, if any, financial aid and bee products have a good export market. They also provide nutrition for the hive owner. This book is easy to understand, and the text is well supported with clearly- labelled black-and-white drawings and diagrams. There are also numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926316
  • Publication Date: Jan 1999
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The Parliamentary Elections in Zimbabwe, 24-25 July 2000

These Election Reports are the observations, conclusions and recommendations of Commonwealth Observer Groups. The Secretary-General constitutes these observer missions at the request of governments and with the agreement of all significant political parties.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926521
  • Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees

K.A. Longman

Designed to provide clear and concise information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees in both moist and drier parts of the tropics, this manual deals with all the procedures necessary for growing tropical trees from seeds.

  • Format: Spiral bound
  • ISBN: 9780850926569
  • Publication Date: Feb 2003
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Developing Countries and the Global Financial System

Stephany Griffith-Jones

This book presents the main papers and principal discussion points of a conference held in June 2000, organised jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank and the IMF. This book looks at how these and other issues relating to the global financial system impact on the developing world.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926750
  • Publication Date: Jan 2001
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Small States in the Global Economy

David Peretz

A collection of the papers presented to the Commonwealth Secretariat/World Bank Joint Task Force conferences in 1999 and 2000. The joint report set out an agenda for future national, regional and international actions to address economic vulnerabilities of small states.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780850926781
  • Publication Date: Jan 2001
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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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From Doha to Cancun

Ivan Mbirimi

In the eyes of the world, the Cancun Trade Ministerial Meeting will act as a litmus test of the major industrial countries' commitment to inclusive globalisation, to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to a stable and peaceful world.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850927603
  • Publication Date: Jan 2003
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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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