The Commonwealth

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.

Vision 2020 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sasha Toperich

  • Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780990772101
  • Publication Date: Oct 2017
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Turkey and Transatlantic Relations

Sasha Toperich

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780990772125
  • Publication Date: Mar 2018
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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms

Patricia Adams

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017146
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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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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Grade Less, Smile More

Patricia D. Lesko

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017528
  • Publication Date: Jan 2019
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Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 21

Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics is a flagship publication of the Commonwealth Secretariat highlighting the development indicators of Commonwealth Small States and disseminating knowledge of their economic performance.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781785599996
  • Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Cash on Delivery

Nancy Birdsall

Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance—one that links aid payments more directly to desired outcomes to promote accountability, responsibility, learning, and strengthening of local institutions.Using an example from education, this book outlines how COD Aid could work in practice. It offers guidance on the identification of measurable outcomes and mechanisms for verification and the management of a variety of risks. The authors provide practical advice, documents, term sheets, and other supporting material that donors and potential recipient governments can use as a basis for designing and implementing COD Aid in particular settings.It also shows how COD Aid could be applied to other sectors and includes guidance for assessing whether COD Aid is achieving its goals.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286365
  • Publication Date: Mar 2010
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Going the Distance

Happy Gingras

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017511
  • Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Wake ‘Em Up!

Julie Smith

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017559
  • Publication Date: Dec 2020
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Maritime Disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean

Roudi Baroudi

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780960012732
  • Publication Date: Jan 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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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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A Risky Business

Center for Global Development Global Health Forecasting Working Group

Access to medicines is an issue of life or death for millions of people in poor countries. While great strides have been made in the last decade to improve health in poor countries the global supply chain that connects the dots does not work well. This report of the Global Health Forecasting Working Group, which was convened in early 2006 by senior fellow and director of programmes Ruth Levine, provides an elegant analysis of the problem and a sensible agenda for action.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286181
  • Publication Date: Sep 2014
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George Bush's Foreign Aid

Carol Lancaster

Over the past seven years, the Bush administration has launched a revolution in U.S. foreign aid. At no time since the administration of President Kennedy have there been more changes in the volume of aid, in aid's purposes and policies, in its organization, and in its overall status in U.S. foreign relations. George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? analyzes in detail the array of recent reforms of U.S. economic assistance and the difficult issues these reforms raise, while placing the changes and the manner of their implementation in a historical and political context. Lancaster draws out the challenges and opportunities this transformation of U.S. aid offer for the next administration to engage the emerging world of the 21st century.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933286273
  • Publication Date: Apr 2008
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