Youth and Development in Africa
Report of a youth seminar that brought together experts in the field of youth organisation and training in Commonwealth Africa to share ideas and experiences. The seminar considered the problem of transition from a traditional to a modern society, and how to equip young people with the skills, attitudes and opportunities to make the transference.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850920239
- Publication Date: Jan 1970
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Transforming Society through the Extractive Industries
Daniel Dumas
Illustrated by case studies of good practice from across the Commonwealth, this book will help government decision-makers ensure that the extractive industries (dealing with the extraction of non-renewable natural resources - notably oil, gas and minerals) transform society for the better, while minimising the risk of instability and conflict.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290272
- Publication Date: Oct 2010
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Tax Audit Techniques in Cash Based Economies
Sheikh Sajjad Hassan
Second edition of a practical guide to using tax audits to detect concealed income in the most common trades in cash based economies. Based on methods used widely in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, it is also useful in other developing countries with cash based economies.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780955354045
- Publication Date: Nov 2010
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Supporting Investment and Private Sector Development in Times of Crisis
Dirk Willem te Velde
Documents the effects of the global financial crisis on investment and private sector development in small states. It uses case studies (St Lucia, Vanuatu and Mauritius) to draw lessons from policy responses and propose further support required at both the national and international level to support the private sector through the economic crisis.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290173
- Publication Date: Apr 2010
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Strengthening Sport for Development and Peace
Oliver Dudfield
Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) brings the power of sport to solving some of the most difficult challenges of humankind, such as the realisation of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. This collection of papers showcases innovative approaches and examples of effective SDP policies and strategies.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291187
- Publication Date: May 2014
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Stop Vulture Fund Lawsuits
Devi Sookun
This handbook distils the key lessons on best practice in negotiating loan agreements, and responding to the activities of vulture funds - funds that buy up the debt of sovereign countries at a discount in the hope of making significant profit - for the benefit of all government officials who may have to deal with these issues.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290081
- Publication Date: Jul 2010
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Social Policies in Grenada
Patsy Lewis
This paper assesses developments in social policy approaches and delivery in Grenada, including the economic strategies pursued and their effects on social policy, particularly in respect of children. It looks at the challenges faced by governments and presents a brief case study of Hurricane Ivan.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290258
- Publication Date: Nov 2010
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Small States
This unique annual collection of key economic and statistical data on states with fewer than five million inhabitants is an essential reference for economists, planners and policy-makers working on issues of concern to small states. This volume contains 54 tables covering development indicators and 3 articles focusing on trade in services.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290166
- Publication Date: Jul 2010
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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: Apr 2024
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Resource Materials for Multi-Grade Teaching
Dawn Quist
One hundred and three million children globally are deprived of their right to an education. These seven modules on multi-grade teaching were designed as part of a partnership effort to assist countries to achieve quality universal primary education. The modules were developed by Commonwealth educators and tested in Tanzania.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850928266
- Publication Date: Sep 2005
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Reality Check
John Nellis
Throughout the 1990's, privatization of inefficient state-owned enterprises was strongly embraced in developing and transitional economies. Little attention has gone to the distributional implications of the privatization movement, a particularly surprising oversight given the current backlash in many settings against further privatization. This book offers a comprehensive set of country-specific studies on the effects of privatization on people—winners and losers in different income, employment, and education groups. The studies analyze the changes in public tax revenue from privatized enterprises, shifts in pension and other liabilities, and changes in income of different groups. Contributors include David McKenzie (Stanford University), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), Gover Barja (Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz), Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University), Samuel Freije (Universidad de Las Américas in Puebla, Mexico), Luis A. Rivas (Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Nicaragua), Máximo Torero, Enrique Schroth, and Alberto Pasco Font (Group of Analysis for Development [GRADE], Lima), Roberto Macedo (University of São Paulo, Presbyterian Mackenzie University, and Foundation Institute of Economic Research, São Paolo), Antonio Estache (World Bank), Michael Bleyzer and Edi Segura (SigmaBleyzer Corporation), Gary H. Jefferson, (Brandeis University), Su Jian (Brandeis and Peking Universities), Jiang Yuan and Yu Xinhua (National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing), and Malathy Knight-John and P.P.A. Wasantha (Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka).
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286006
- Publication Date: Oct 2005
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Overview of Youth Development in Ghana
This book makes recommendations for how Ghana can mainstream youth issues in its development strategies, providing baseline evaluations of socio-economic issues that particularly affect the youth demographic, such as underemployment, a lack of access to quality education and poverty.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291972
- Publication Date: Apr 2021
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Manoeuvring at the Margins
Emily Jones
Highlights three areas where small states can maximise their potential influence: establishing an effective negotiating team by strengthening human resources; harnessing the support of civil society and the private sector; and, improving negotiation strategies.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290067
- Publication Date: Feb 2010
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Making Democracy Work for Pro-Poor Development
Manmohan Singh
Starting from the premise that democracy is more than simply a matter of universal suffrage and the holding of regular multiparty elections, and that development is about much more than growth of GDP, this Report focuses on how to make democracy work for pro-poor development and on development policies that in themselves uphold.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850927818
- Publication Date: Oct 2003
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Integrating Sustainable Development into National Frameworks
Janet Strachan
This book brings policy-making for sustainable development into the mainstream of decision-making at all levels of governance and in all sectors. It builds on the 2005 internationally agreed 'Mauritius Strategy' which aims to implement the integration of sustainable development by small island developing states.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290340
- Publication Date: May 2011
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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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Implementing The Commonwealth Guide to Advancing Development through Sport
Colin Higgs
Effective SDP programmes require careful planning, delivery and evaluation. This workbook is designed as a roadmap to help governments and sport organisations work together. It includes practical exercises to guide users through the many steps that comprise the lifecycle of an SDP programme.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9781849291163
- Publication Date: Jul 2014
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Identification Revolution
Alan Gelb
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781944691035
- Publication Date: Jan 2018
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Guidebook to Education in the Commonwealth
Guidebook showcasing successful, innovative education initiatives to help meet the MDGs and Education for All targets from around the Commonwealth, in a concise and easy-to-use format. Provides policy-makers with examples of solutions that will assist them in devising strategies to counter their own educational challenges.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290845
- Publication Date: Aug 2012
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Gender Mainstreaming in the Health Sector
This is the consensus built up in a series of workshops in different regions of the Commonwealth on what is the most effective way of applying Gender Management System principles and methodology to the health sector. This manual should assist other countries in adapting mainstreaming.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850927337
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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