Promoting Industrial Competitiveness in Developing Countries
Sanjaya Lall
As developing countries have started to open up their economies, concern about competitiveness has spread to their policy makers. Their relative competitiveness as production and investment sites has become a prime focus of development policy.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850926231
- Publication Date: Oct 1999
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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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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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Enhancing the Contribution of Sport to the Sustainable Development Goals
Iain Lindsey
This guide builds on the work of previous Commonwealth publications analysing the role of sport in achieving sustainable development. Aimed at governmental policy-makers and other stakeholders, it provides evidenced and balanced policy options supporting the effective contribution of sport towards six prioritised Sustainable Development Goals.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291651
- Publication Date: Apr 2017
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Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa
Ameliat Lombard
Designed to help trainers develop suitable materials to assist small farmers and producers to supply high quality horticultural produce for sale. This title provides the trainer with practical tasks that reinforce and enhance comprehension of theoretical training.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850928594
- Publication Date: Mar 2009
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Growing Good Tropical Trees for Planting
K.A. Longman
This Manual is the third in a series of readable, well illustrated handbooks about propagating and planting tropical trees. The procedures described in this series of Manuals may be used with the majority of woody species to provide diverse seedling or clonal mixtures.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850925357
- Publication Date: Jan 1998
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Rooting Cuttings of Tropical Trees
K.A. Longman
This book offers information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees. It is suitable for a small-holder and an experienced forester who are interested in growing trees in both humid and drier areas.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850923940
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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Preparing to Plant Tropical Trees
K.A. Longman
This Manual is the fourth in a series of readable, well illustrated handbooks for propagating and planting tropical trees. Manual 4 is concerned with the key choices that lie between propagation of good planting stock, and its planting and successful establishment.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850924183
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees
K.A. Longman
Designed to provide clear and concise information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees in both moist and drier parts of the tropics, this manual deals with all the procedures necessary for growing tropical trees from seeds.
- Format: Spiral bound
- ISBN: 9780850926569
- Publication Date: Feb 2003
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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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Making Trade in Services Supportive of Development in Commonwealth Small and Low-Income Countries
Patrick Macrory
This Economic Paper assesses new innovative measures in trade in service negotiations that reflect the vulnerabilities and challenges faced by developing countries. It outlines the approaches that can help small and low-income countries in a manner that is practical and supportive of their economic development.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290708
- Publication Date: Nov 2011
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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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Gender, Peace and Security
Fredline A.O. M'Cormack-Hale
Examines women's role in both conflict and post-conflict reconciliation. It describes how UNSCR 1325 provides support for women in peace-building processes and provides case studies of how it has been implemented in selected countries, including the benefits of NAPs and women's involvement in their adoption.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290746
- Publication Date: Apr 2012
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e-Governance in Small States
Anthony Ming
ICTs can create digital pathways between citizens and governments that are affordable, accessible and widespread. This book aims to strengthen the understanding of policy-makers by outlining the conditions and processes involved in the planning and execution of e-government projects.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291026
- Publication Date: Jul 2013
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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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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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Citizenship Education in Small States
Una M. Paul
Identity and diversity in all its forms present major challenges to countries seeking to best equip citizens with the skills to participate effectively in their diverse societies. They set out the strategies and actions needed to support small states wishing to promote the values of good citizenship.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850927313
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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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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Key Principles of Public Sector Reforms
Joan Nwasike
This book contains case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Grenada, India, Kenya, Rwanda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania and Trinidad and Tobago on the policy reforms, strategies and methodologies that support national priorities and greater policy coherence for sustained development and growth.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291811
- Publication Date: Aug 2018
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