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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The Eastern Question
Stefan Meister
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780990772095
- Publication Date: Jul 2016
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Achieving the Istanbul Programme of Action by 2020
Achieving the Istanbul Programme of Action by 2020 focuses on four specific themes: structural transformation and export diversification in the LDCs; prospects of graduation of countries from the LDC group; implications of the 2030 Agenda in view of LDC concerns; and new challenges facing LDCs in their pursuit for achieving SDGs.
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- ISBN: 9781849291484
- Publication Date: Aug 2016
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The Impact of China and India on Sub-Saharan Africa
Oliver Morrissey
Through detailed country-level analysis, this study examines the trading partnerships between China, India and sub-Saharan Africa. It assesses the economic impacts, identifies challenges and provides recommendations to assist policy-makers enhance the ability of SSA countries to derive benefits and to take advantage of new opportunities.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290555
- Publication Date: May 2011
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Oil to Cash
Todd Moss
What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world's poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and gas producers, these are pressing policy questions. Oil to Cash explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.
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- ISBN: 9781933286693
- Publication Date: Jun 2015
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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.
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- ISBN: 9781933286709
- Publication Date: Nov 2012
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Europe's Economic Crisis
Robert M. Solow
Today the Eurozone is in turmoil, beset by stresses and strains that could challenge Europe's very construction. How did the current crisis come about, and how may it be resolved? And what does it mean for Europe's historic experiment in political and economic integration? This book addresses these questions and offers invaluable perspectives for anyone attempting to understand the roots and continuing impact of Europe's economic crisis.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780984854431
- Publication Date: Feb 2012
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Implementing a National Export Strategy
Isaac Njoroge
This handbook explains how the Commonwealth Secretariat helps countries develop national export strategies with a clear purpose, strategies that are action-oriented, and which recognise the interrelationship between technological, economic, social, political and cultural aspects of society.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290210
- Publication Date: Jul 2010
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Challenges of Democracy in the European Union and its Neighbors
Aylin Ünver Noi
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780990772064
- Publication Date: Jul 2016
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Fortresses & Icebergs
Jeffrey P. Bialos
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780984134120
- Publication Date: Oct 2009
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European Defense Research & Development
Jeffrey P. Bialos
The enormous influence of technology on the conduct of modern warfare has been made obvious by recent conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Because current defense research and development (R&D) spending is a leading indicator of future defense technology, it is significant that Europe's investment in defense R&D is only one fourth that of the United States. The "R&D gap" continues to expand as the pace of U.S. spending accelerates while that of Europe remains flat. Moreover, the impact of European defense R&D is dissipated through fragmentation and duplications of effort in parallel national programs. The contributors to this volume consider the implications of this situation for tomorrow's European defense capabilities. They predict how the R&D gap could affect the future of transatlantic relationships and discuss the effectiveness of current efforts to rectify the problems. The book also discusses the prospects for expanded cooperation in defense research and development between the United States and its European allies. Contributors include Klaus Becher (European Union's Institute for Security Studies and Knowledge and Analysis LLP), Kenneth Flamm (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin), Masako Ikegami (Center for Pacific Studies, Stockholm University), Jeffrey P. Bialos (Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University – SAIS), David Gould (UK Defense Procurement Agency), Andrew James (University of Manchester, UK), Staffan Nasstrom (Swedish Defense Material Administration), Yves Boyer ( Fondation pour la Récherche Stratégique), Stuart Koehl (Center for Transatlantic Relations).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332566
- Publication Date: Sep 2004
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Ideas for America's Future
Jeffrey P. Bialos
The next U.S. president will need to adopt a national security strategy for the post-Iraq era that reflects our core values, can earn the trust of the American people and coalition partners, and can protect the country. This book sets forth some of the core elements of a new American strategy. The book discusses how to shape our security policies for dealing with rising power China, emerging power India, and declining power Russia. It addresses how to maintain American openness to foreign ideas, people and capital, and how to win hearts and minds in the struggle against radical Jihadism. It also looks at how to refocus our military and civilian national security capabilities to address the low intensity missions we are likely to face—from insurgency to stabilization and reconstruction to tsunamis.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780980187151
- Publication Date: Jun 2008
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Fortresses & Icebergs, Volumes 1 and 2
Jeffrey P. Bialos
Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense, this book uses disciplined diagnostic methodologies to assess the openness and accessibility of European and U.S. defense markets. The authors also evaluate the evolving European institutions, laws, policies, practices, and arrangements that impact the defense industry. They also propose recommendations for the future.As the book discusses, a more open and competitive transatlantic defense market can potentially facilitate greater force interoperability and capability acquisition in an era where coalition warfare is the norm. A more competitive market would also encourage greater competition, and the affordability and innovation it brings, in a time of global defense industrial consolidation.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780980187175
- Publication Date: Nov 2009
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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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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.
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- ISBN: 9781933286280
- Publication Date: Jan 2009
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E-commerce and Digital Trade
Paul R. Baker
E-Commerce and Digital Trade reviews the current frameworks, legal issues, empirical data, WTO member states proposals, and existing literature. It is designed for policy-makers in Commonwealth small states, LDCs, and sub-Saharan African countries to participate in global work on the subject area, including the WTO work programme on e-commerce.
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- ISBN: 9781849291682
- Publication Date: Jul 2017
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Trading Places?
Andrew Rimmer
This book introduces the main concepts and trade facilitation reliefs that businesses must understand if they are to trade internationally with the least intervention and disruption from the Tax Authorities. It highlights the means of importing goods and arriving at the Customs value on which import duty and import VAT are computed. It also provides commentary on export procedures and the VAT treatment of intra-EC trading, including potential fiscal barriers to exploiting non-UK markets. Chapters on potential pitfalls and planning for international trade provide the reader with an overview of ‘Best-practice’ when looking to import or export goods.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781907444005
- Publication Date: Nov 2010
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Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Building Resilience for the OECS
Julian Roberts
This book identifies and explores the potential ocean-based development opportunities that OECS countries could pursue to build more inclusive, sustainable and resilient economies. These promising sectors include fisheries, marine transport and marine-based tourism, as well as high-valueemerging sectors such as sustainable aquaculture.
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- ISBN: 9780850920086
- Publication Date: Jul 2023
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Assessment of Debt Restructuring Operations in Commonwealth Small States
Michele Robinson
This paper highlights the concerns of Commonwealth small states about unsustainable debt burdens and the emerging challenges to their overall debt sustainability. It offers key lessons learned from Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, and Seychelles.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291354
- Publication Date: May 2015
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Growing Pains in Latin America
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
This book tackles the complex issue of how to accelerate economic growth and ensure sustainability in Latin America. It first lays out the framework designed by experts in the economics and politics of growth in the region. Although simple and intuitive, the framework addresses the many ingredients that shape economic growth there, including macroeconomics, the quality of political institutions, productivity, income inequality, democracy, and resistance to reform.A second group of experts then apply the framework to five countries: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru. They provide specific policy recommendations on how to proceed with the reform process while taking into account the local conditions (economic, social, and political) that characterize the individual countries.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286310
- Publication Date: Jun 2009
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