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.
Africa's Private Sector
Vijaya Ramachandran
Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter. Through enterprise surveys conducted in several African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, these businesspeople identify poor infrastructure—particularly the lack of a reliable source of power—as a huge constraint on private sector activity.Politics also plays a key role in limiting the success of African businesses. Many countries there have private sectors that are ethnically segmented or dominated by ethnic minorities or both. Segmented networks in already sparse economic environments limit competition, encourage an ambivalent attitude toward facilitating a good business environment, and constrain the growth of firms outside the dominant network. Consequently, Africa has yet to see the emergence of a broad-based business class. Africa's Private Sector identifies several solutions to address both the infrastructure and political economy constraints hampering business growth in Africa.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286280
- Publication Date: Jan 2009
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Due Diligence
David Roodman
The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability, the idea has expanded beyond credit into savings, insurance, and money transfers, earning the name microfinance. But is it the boon so many think it is?Readers of David Roodman's openbook blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis. Due Diligence, written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favor of other financial services for the poor.
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- ISBN: 9781933286488
- Publication Date: Dec 2011
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Greenprint
Arvind Subramanian
Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors—which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo call the "narrative," "adding up," and "new world" problems—the wonder is not the current impasse; it is, rather, the belief that progress might be possible at all.In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress must address each of these problems in a radically different way. First, the old narrative of recrimination must cede to a narrative based on recognition of common interests. Second, leaders must shift the focus away from emissions cuts to technology generation. Third, the old "cash-for-cuts" approach must be abandoned for one that requires contributions from all countries calibrated in magnitude and form to their current level of development and future prospects.
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- ISBN: 9781933286679
- Publication Date: Feb 2013
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Surgery for Pelvic Malignancies
Evgenia Halkia
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789963716586
- Publication Date: Apr 2014
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Emergency Cardiology
Loukianos S. Rallidis
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789963716814
- Publication Date: Jan 2017
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Skandalakis' Surgical Anatomy
John E. Skandalakis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603990741
- Publication Date: Jan 2004
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Poems of the Mind
Constantine P. Karakousis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603994206
- Publication Date: Jan 2006
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Regional Oncotherapies
Odysseas Zoras
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603994749
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Advances in Obstructive Jaundice
Michael J. McMahon
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995333
- Publication Date: Mar 2007
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Infections of the Hand & Upper Limb
Konstantinos N. Malizos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995937
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Gray's & Skandalakis' Atlas of Surgical Anatomy and Embryology for General Surgeons
Panagiotis N. Skandalakis
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603997269
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
Ernesto P. Molmenti
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997894
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Advances in Endovascular Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Theodossios P. Perkides
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997917
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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MÃ the Modern Greek
M.L. Batrinos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789607395412
- Publication Date: Jan 1996
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Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries
Nicolas van de Walle
In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries have limited infrastructure and human capital and the small size of their markets deter private savings and investment. Aid was meant to help overcome these problems, and these countries received a lot. Yet they have failed to grow. What is wrong? Is foreign aid a solution or part of the problem? What changes might make aid more effective? Given these countries require the financial and technical resources of the West, why haven't aid programs made a difference? Van de Walle blames their economic failure mostly on the venality and incompetence of their political leadership. He analyzes the contradictions and tensions faced by the aid community in poorly run countries, providing a sobering analysis of the perverse effects of aid where the politics is all wrong. Too often, resources provided by foreign aid keep the wrong government in office, and undermine adoption of economic as well as political reforms. Bad government combined with aid, in short, hurts poor countries – and particularly the poorest people in those countries. Despite good intentions, little progress has been made in implementing announced "reforms" of the aid business itself. A constituency for reform is lacking, in the donor countries and in the recipient countries, where those in power benefit from the status quo.
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- ISBN: 9781933286013
- Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Performance Incentives for Global Health
Rena Eichler
This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors describe the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and they provide clear guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. A set of case studies focuses on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries. In particular, these studies emphasize how explicit incentives can be used to strengthen weak health systems.The book will be of use to policymakers and program managers in both developing countries and the donor community interested in improving health outcomes through the strategic use of performance-based incentives.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286297
- Publication Date: Apr 2009
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