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.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291965
- Publication Date: Mar 2021
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Regional Integration in South Asia
Mohammad A. Razzaque
This volume presents an objective assessment of trade and economic co-operation among South Asian nations and highlights policy issues to foster regional integration. It presents insightful perspectives on potential new areas of co-operation, emerging challenges, and country-specific views on regional and bilateral trade co-operation issues.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781849291217
- Publication Date: Nov 2014
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Tourism and Inclusive Growth in Small Island Developing States
Mark P. Hampton
How tourism might facilitate inclusive growth in small states. The study provides analysis of the gains achieved by direct and indirect channels and the gaps in data collection. Uses data from Jamaica, Maldives, Mauritius and Seychelles, examines land-based and cruise tourism operations and explores how local supply chains could be enhanced.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291071
- Publication Date: Aug 2013
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Migration and Development
Wonderful Hope Khonje
This book contextualises migration and development to the peculiar vulnerabilities of small states. It includes case studies from small states in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific that will help policy-makers to embrace migration as an inevitable phenomenon and devise policies that will maximise the benefits from migration at a minimal cost.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291330
- Publication Date: Feb 2015
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Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States
Wonderful Hope Khonje
Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States: Commonwealth Perspectives offers timely and expert analysis of differentiated exposure of small states to natural disasters, including an examination of specific interventions for strengthening small states' resilience to this phenomenon.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291897
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Small States
Cletus I. Springer
Examines measures through which small states can work together with the international community to strengthen their ability to cope with pressing challenges such as climate change, sustainable manufacturing, and renewable energy technologies.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290647
- Publication Date: Oct 2011
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Istanbul Programme of Action for the LDCs (2011-2020)
LDC IV Monitor's first reports provide an independent assessment of the status of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (IPoA). They aim to enhance transparency, accountability and efficiency in the implementation of the IPoA leading towards the graduation of the least developed countries (LDCs).
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781849291194
- Publication Date: Oct 2014
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Financial Intermediation in Small Island Developing Economies
Maxwell J. Fry
This study examines the problems and policies for financial intermediation in small economies, including financial institutions, measures their efficiency and policy frame, and analyses the financial structure in the Bahamas, Barbados, Fiji, Hong Kong, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands and Western Samoa.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850922080
- Publication Date: Sep 1981
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A Sustainable Future for Small States
Resina Katafono
This publication reviews seven sectors that can catalyse economic development in the Commonwealth Pacific: political governance; development effectiveness and co-ordination; oceans governance; non-communicable diseases; ICT and connectivity; migration and climate change; and energy, and offers policy solutions to address these challenges.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291637
- Publication Date: Sep 2017
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Least Developed Country Transition
Jodie Keane
Progress made in the Least Developed Counties (LDCs) in the Commonwealth will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end, this book identifies areas in which international support measures could be improved to reduce economic vulnerability in Bangladesh, Mozambique and Solomon Islands.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291910
- Publication Date: Mar 2020
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Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States
Denny Lewis-Bynoe
Written by influential researchers and drawing on a wide cross-section of regional stakeholders and thought leaders, the study contains an assessment of the main challenges and opportunities for the Caribbean, scenario modelling of where it could be by 2050, and a vision for the region with sector specific goals of how to get there.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291460
- Publication Date: Apr 2016
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Building the Resilience of Small States
Denny Lewis-Bynoe
This study refines and expands the Commonwealth resilience framework, developed to measure the resilience of small states' economies to adverse economic shocks, natural disasters and extreme weather events. It proposes policy measures for building resilience, and the areas in which key development partners can provide support.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291286
- Publication Date: Sep 2014
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The Big Divide
John L. Roberts
This report analyses data, 2000–2010, from 46 small island developing states (SIDS) to provide a comprehensive assessment of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from a small states perspective. It shows a 'big divide' separates these countries across the range of MDG economic, social and environmental indicators.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290883
- Publication Date: Dec 2012
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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.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291484
- Publication Date: Aug 2016
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Capture Fisheries
This third volume in the Commonwealth Blue Economy Series, Capture Fisheries, describes challenges in managing capture fisheries, and strategies and activities that could be undertaken by SIDS to make improvements. Includes case studies illustrating positive actions that have been taken by SIDS and their outcomes.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291545
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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Marine Renewable Energy
This fourth volume in the Commonwealth Blue Economy Series, Marine Renewable Energy, explores the potential for the development of the blue economy by providing a high-level review of actions needed to progress marine renewable energy generation in SIDS.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291552
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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Youth Mainstreaming in Development Planning
A compendium of concepts to initiate dialogue, and mobilise consensus around visions and strategies for young people. Includes tools and techniques that support initiatives to mainstream youth rights, voices and capabilities across government and other institutions. It is aimed policy-makers and practitioners engaged in development planning.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291644
- Publication Date: Jul 2017
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Aquaculture
This second volume of the Commonwealth Blue Economy Series, Aquaculture, explores the potential for the development of a blue economy mariculture industry, as well as specific enabling conditions that could assist in moving towards economic reality where opportunities exist.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291491
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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Blue Biotechnology
This fifth volume in the Commonwealth Blue Economy Series, Blue Biotechnology, provides a high-level assessment of the opportunities available for economic diversification through the development of a blue biotechnology sector in SIDS for food, health products and pharmaceuticals.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291521
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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The Blue Economy and Small States
Island nations have benefited from their ocean resources, with marine uses and activities contributing to their economic development. There is a growing appreciation of the critical role oceans play in sustainable economic growth and the need to manage and protect coastal and marine ecosystems that are the fundamental basis for that growth.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291569
- Publication Date: Sep 2016
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