Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States

Wonderful Hope Khonje

Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States: Commonwealth Perspectives offers timely and expert analysis of differentiated exposure of small states to natural disasters, including an examination of specific interventions for strengthening small states' resilience to this phenomenon.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849291897
  • Publication Date: Oct 2019
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The State of the Digital Economy in the Commonwealth

This first volume in the Commonwealth Connectivity Series explores some of the issues facing policy-makers in the Commonwealth in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It provides policy recommendations that Commonwealth members can use to address the challenges and realise the benefits of the digital age.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849291903
  • Publication Date: Feb 2020
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Commonwealth Economic Development Report 2019

This first volume of the Commonwealth Economic Development Report reviews macroeconomic developments across the Commonwealth, highlighting key issues through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals. It further lays out the appropriate actions Commonwealth member countries can take to arrest development challenges.

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  • ISBN: 9781849291934
  • Publication Date: May 2021
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Trade, Gender, Climate

This book offers new analysis of gender issues in the trade and climate arenas. It informs the development of strategies to support national governments in mainstreaming gender issues within trade and climate, which is critical to the post-2030 development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849291958
  • Publication Date: Aug 2020
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Environmental, Social and Economic Development Provisions in Investment Contracts

Motoko Aizawa

This book provides detailed guidance for government drafters and reviewers of investment contracts in the Commonwealth to achieve fairness and balance in investment relationships with respect to environmental, social and economic development matters.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849291965
  • Publication Date: Mar 2021
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Global Youth Development Index and Report 2020

The Youth Development Index is a resource for researchers, policy-makers and civil society, including young people, to track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with youth development.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849292009
  • Publication Date: Sep 2021
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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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