The Rise and Fall of The Freedman's Bank

Rodney A. Brooks

The author tells the history of the Freedman's Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The Freedman's Bank offered a safe depository for formerly enslaved people, expanded quickly and gained millions in deposits – mostly ranging from $5 to $50. But inexperience and corruption doomed it to failure, costing may of the small depositors their savings.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781910151495
  • Publication Date: Mar 2024
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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms

Patricia Adams

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017146
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks of Small States

Gérard Adonis

This book reviews the implementation of macroeconomic policies in Malta, identifying the key issues, lessons learnt and best practices which could be adapted by other small states. It also sets out the country's challenges for the future, including attending to the conflicting demands of environmental conservation and economic development.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849290630
  • Publication Date: Sep 2011
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Promoting Good Governance

Sam Agere

This book aims to show that a strong and achieving public service is a necessary condition for a competitively successful nation. The concept of good governance is linked with institutionalised values such as democracy, observance of human rights and greater effectiveness of the public sector.

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  • ISBN: 9780850926293
  • Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Thomistic Metaphysics

Charles A. Hart

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9783868385588
  • Publication Date: Jun 2015
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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.

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  • ISBN: 9781849291965
  • Publication Date: Mar 2021
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A Guide to the Medicinal Plants of Coastal Guyana

Deborah A. Lachman-White

This book describes and illustrates plants used medicinally in coastal Guyana. It includes entries for 173 native and naturalised Guyanese plants, as well as a few cultivated species. Of these, 148 are illustrated by line drawings, the majority of which have been created by local artists.

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  • ISBN: 9780850923872
  • Publication Date: Jan 1992
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Municipal Infrastructure Financing

Munawwar Alam

Presents an overview of the municipal finances and the extent of private sector involvement in the delivery of municipal services in selected Commonwealth developing countries. This title examines four cities: Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Kampala in Uganda, Dhaka in Bangladesh, and Karachi in Pakistan.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849290036
  • Publication Date: Feb 2010
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Developing Countries

Munawwar Alam

This research study examines different approaches to intergovernmental transfers (ICTs) in developing countries in the Commonwealth, and assesses their relative strengths and weaknesses. It includes detailed case studies of India and Kenya, lessons learned from IGT systems in Australia and the United Kingdom.

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  • ISBN: 9781849291170
  • Publication Date: Jul 2014
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Inexcusable Absence

Maureen A. Lewis

Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of attention--but surprisingly little hardheaded analysis to inform practical policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed propose new strategies for reaching the 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are "doubly disadvantaged" by their ethnicity, language, or other factors. The book will be an important tool for policymakers, informing interventions that can make a profound impact on the lives of the 60 million out-of-school girls.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286143
  • Publication Date: Dec 2006
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Exclusion, Gender and Education

Maureen A. Lewis

Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In their previous book, Inexcusable Absence, Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly threequarters of the girls who are not in school belong to ethnic, religious, linguistic, racial, or other minorities. In this companion volume, they further analyze the determinants of school enrollment, completion, and learning in seven countries: the highly heterogeneous populations of Laos, China, Pakistan, India, and Guatemala and the homogeneous populations of Bangladesh and Tunisia. The authors find that in ethnically and linguistically diverse populations, minority groups—minority girls in particular— lag significantly behind the majority population in school attendance, while highly homogeneous populations like Bangladesh and Tunisia have successfully integrated girls into school on a par with boys. By increasing understanding about the major impediments to universal primary education, Exclusion, Gender and Education provides valuable new knowledge to those who are working to bring gender equity to the education systems of poor countries.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286228
  • Publication Date: Oct 2007
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Employee Reward Structures

Jackie Anderson

This is a comprehensive guide to the tax treatment of executive reward packages, from recruitment to termination. Includes a comprehensive glossary of terms, checklists and flowcharts. The sixth edition contains analysis of: the following changes: Taxation of pensions contributions, cap on tax relief for contributions, additional rate relief restriction, alignment of pension input periods, reduction in lifetime allowance, freedom to draw down lump sums Termination payments Significant proposed changes in treatment Employee Benefit Trusts: Important case law developments (Murray Group Holdings) Employee Shareholder Shares: Changes to the relief and proposal to end agreements Employee Share Plans: Streamlining and Self-certification Benefits in kind: Removal of 'lower-paid employee' status Includes complete work on CD-ROM (with cross-references and website resources hyperlinked) with the printed book.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781910151389
  • Publication Date: Jul 2017
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Global Agriculture and the American Farmer

Kimberly Ann Elliot

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286983
  • Publication Date: Jun 2017
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History in the Public Domain

Raziuddin Aquil

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9789394262140
  • Publication Date: Mar 2024
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The Cuneiform Texts from the Danish Excavations of Ḥamā in Syria (1931-1938)

Troels P. Arbøll

  • Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9788773044513
  • Publication Date: Aug 2023
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Malaysia's Taxation System

Mohamed Ariff

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9789671369791
  • Publication Date: Jan 2020
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Medicina Interna Basada en la Evidencia 2022/23

Rodolfo Armas Merino

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9788374306751
  • Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Medicina Interna Basada en la Evidencia 2019/20

Rodolfo Armas Merino

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9788374305853
  • Publication Date: May 2019
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Prioritising the Implementation of International Financial Regulation

John Armour

Presents a risk-based framework for implementing international financial regulation within national economies, in particular in small states. It includes case studies to illustrate how the framework can be integrated with standard setting processes to improve outcomes for small states.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781849291408
  • Publication Date: Jul 2015
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Quantitative Genetics for Quality Experimentation

V. Arunachalam

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9788130928098
  • Publication Date: Nov 2016
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