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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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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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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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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Tax Audit Techniques in Cash Based Economies
Sheikh Sajjad Hassan
Second edition of a practical guide to using tax audits to detect concealed income in the most common trades in cash based economies. Based on methods used widely in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, it is also useful in other developing countries with cash based economies.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780955354045
- Publication Date: Nov 2010
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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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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.
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- ISBN: 9780850925104
- Publication Date: Jan 1997
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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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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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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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Resource Materials for Multi-Grade Teaching
Dawn Quist
One hundred and three million children globally are deprived of their right to an education. These seven modules on multi-grade teaching were designed as part of a partnership effort to assist countries to achieve quality universal primary education. The modules were developed by Commonwealth educators and tested in Tanzania.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850928266
- Publication Date: Sep 2005
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Jacques Lacan: An Introduction To His Psychoanalysis
Eleni Boliaki
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603995128
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Reinterventions in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
George Geroulakos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995401
- Publication Date: Oct 2007
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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.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286709
- Publication Date: Nov 2012
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Rescuing the World Bank
Nancy Birdsall
The World Bank is assailed by critics on the left, right and center on the grounds it is not effective, not accountable, not democratic or legitimate, and most threatening of all, not relevant in a global economy where private capital, production, and ideas dominate. Yet the world needs a strong World Bank working with other international institutions to manage development and the related global challenges of the 21st century. Are the Bank's shortcomings exaggerated or potentially fatal? If potentially fatal, can this critical institution be rescued? Rescuing the World Bank explores the answers to these questions. The first part of the book, The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks for the New President of the World Bank, is a report by a Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Group delivered to Paul Wolfowitz on his first day in the office in June 2005. The second part comprises selected essays, many first presented at a CGD Symposium in the fall of 2005. The Working Group members and essay authors represent a rich array of experience and views. CGD president Nancy Birdsall was co-chair of the Working Group and selected and edited the essays. Her view that the Bank is a crucial global institution but potentially at risk is widely—but not universally—shared by the Working Group members and the essay authors. The provocative volume will be widely read and discussed by those who are actively grappling with how to strengthen the World Bank, by its many stakeholders, and by readers with a broad interest in development seeking a better understanding of this vital and complex institution as it struggles to adapt to the demands of the 21st century.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286112
- Publication Date: Aug 2006
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