Beyond Lending
Guillermo Perry
When he began this book in early 2008, Guillermo Perry argued that developing countries remained highly vulnerable to external risks such as commodity price declines, capital flow reversals, and natural disasters. The economic crisis that has since ensued confirmed Perry's analysis. It has also made his proposal more important than ever: multilateral development banks (MDBs) should move beyond lending to provide innovative risk-management tools for developing countries to manage volatility. The risk that MDBs will fall into complacency as the short-term demand for traditional loans increases during the crisis should not deter innovations to ensure long-term stability.Contents1. Causes and Consequences of High Volatility in Developing Countries2. The Role of Financial Insurance and Hedging3. Dealing with Liquidity Shocks and the Procyclicality of Private Capital Flows4. Dealing with Currency Risks5. Dealing with Commodity Price, Terms of Trade, and Output Risks6. Dealing with Natural Disaster Risks7. Why Multilateral Development Bank Practices Are So Far from Their Potential8. An Agenda Going Forward
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286327
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Beyond the Border and Across the Atlantic
Loretta Bondi
In 2000, the Advent of Vicente Fox Quesada to the presidency of Mexico promised to change the course of Mexican foreign policy. It would open the country to outside influences and engage the nation in a new activism on the international scene. Mexico's new voice would be heard at the United Nations in support of international human rights and multilateralism. It would resonate at the Organization of American States to forge an area of democracy, durable peace and security in the western hemisphere. Mexico would seek to inject a new vision and a new sense of purpose in its relationship with the US, and work with the European Union to foster or enhance both common goals and Mexico's own development agenda. Mexico's experiment is of particular interest for some of its innovative characteristics. In its attempt to break with its isolationist past, Mexico enlisted support from the international community to help the country through its transition to democracy, and to anchor it to the evolving security debate in the post-September 11th 2001 environment. Beyond the Border and Across the Atlantic chronicles crucial choices and defining moments of Mexico's unique experiment in the international foreign and security arena, and describes President Fox's fascinating roller-coaster of successes and failures on the multilateral and bilateral scene.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332535
- Publication Date: Jun 2004
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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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Biochemical Tests
Anil Kumar
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788130929576
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Biogeography and Biodiversity of the Aegean
Spyros Sfenthourakis
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789925563784
- Publication Date: Nov 2018
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Biological Diversity
Arun Kumar Sharma
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788130931760
- Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Biostatistics
Manju Pandey
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9788130927534
- Publication Date: Jul 2015
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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms
Patricia Adams
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780940017146
- Publication Date: Dec 2017
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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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Bovine Anatomy
Klaus-Dieter Budras
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899930528
- Publication Date: Jul 2011
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Building a Research University
Peter J. Heard
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789675492594
- Publication Date: Jul 2022
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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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Bully Blocking
Evelyn M. Field
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781922607843
- Publication Date: Jan 2024
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Bungy Jumping
Phil Kettle
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781925308709
- Publication Date: Oct 2022
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Business Guide to the World Trading System
This book provides an overview of achievements of the Uruguay Round and the legal system established by it, and explains the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO). A sequel to 'Business Guide to the Uruguay Round' (1995), this edition contains updates on new developments which have taken place since 1996.
- Imprint: International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO and Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850926217
- Publication Date: Jan 1999
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Cameroon Legislative and Municipal Elections, 30 September 2013
The report of the Commonwealth Observer Mission for the Pakistan elections, held 11 May 2013. The Mission was led by Sir Douglas Kidd, former Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, and was comprised of 13 eminent persons.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291132
- Publication Date: Jan 2014
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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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Career & Employability
Jason Soh
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789675492686
- Publication Date: Aug 2022
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The CARIFORUM and Pacific ACP Economic Partnership Agreements
Christopher Stevens
A report on the CARIFORUM and Pacific ACP Economic Partnership Agreements that analyses the detailed implications for the economies of the countries involved of commitments signed or initialled, including an indication of the broad country and region-wide effects.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849290005
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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