The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations. Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.
The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation that supports member countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s aims of development, democracy and peace. It publishes authoritative, evidence-based research and knowledge products for policymakers, academics, professionals and wider publics across the world. Our areas of focus and expertise include small and developing states; environment and climate change; democracy, law and government; and social issues concerning young people, gender, health and education.
Christian VII
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788772170442
- Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Frederik VI
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788772170480
- Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Writing Homer
Minna Skafte Jensen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773043615
- Publication Date: Apr 2011
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Aristotle's Categories in the Byzantine, Arabic and Latin Traditions
Sten Ebbesen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773043721
- Publication Date: May 2013
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Private Associations and the Public Sphere
Vincent Gabrielson
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773043899
- Publication Date: Sep 2015
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The Elite University - Roles and Models
Ditlev Tamm
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044094
- Publication Date: Aug 2017
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Two Studies in the History of Ancient Greek Athletics
Thomas Heine Nielsen
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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- ISBN: 9788773044124
- Publication Date: Aug 2018
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Ludvig Lorenz
Helge Kragh
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773044179
- Publication Date: Jan 2018
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Women, Children and the Family in Palmyra
Signe Krag
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773044193
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Attempted Solution to a Fundamental Psychobiological Problem
Iven Reventlow
- Imprint: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9788773044209
- Publication Date: Aug 2019
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Small Animal Gastroenterology
Romy M. Heilmann
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- ISBN: 9783899939842
- Publication Date: Aug 2024
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The Thief
Ulrik Langen
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- ISBN: 9788712075400
- Publication Date: Aug 2024
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Identification Revolution
Alan Gelb
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781944691035
- Publication Date: Jan 2018
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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).
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- ISBN: 9781933286006
- Publication Date: Oct 2005
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Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries
Nicolas van de Walle
In this book, Nicolas Van de Walle identifies 26 countries that are extremely poor and grew little if at all in the 1990s. His sample excludes North Korea and countries where civil war explains some of their failure to grow (Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tajikistan and others). The 26 countries have limited infrastructure and human capital and the small size of their markets deter private savings and investment. Aid was meant to help overcome these problems, and these countries received a lot. Yet they have failed to grow. What is wrong? Is foreign aid a solution or part of the problem? What changes might make aid more effective? Given these countries require the financial and technical resources of the West, why haven't aid programs made a difference? Van de Walle blames their economic failure mostly on the venality and incompetence of their political leadership. He analyzes the contradictions and tensions faced by the aid community in poorly run countries, providing a sobering analysis of the perverse effects of aid where the politics is all wrong. Too often, resources provided by foreign aid keep the wrong government in office, and undermine adoption of economic as well as political reforms. Bad government combined with aid, in short, hurts poor countries – and particularly the poorest people in those countries. Despite good intentions, little progress has been made in implementing announced "reforms" of the aid business itself. A constituency for reform is lacking, in the donor countries and in the recipient countries, where those in power benefit from the status quo.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286013
- Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Making Markets for Vaccines
Ruth Levine
Making a commitment in advance to buy vaccines if and when they are developed would create incentives for industry to increase investment in research and development. New commercial investment would complement funding of research and development by public and charitable bodies, accelerating the development of vital new vaccines for the developing world. This report presents the proposal from theory to practice, by showing how a commitment can be consistent with ordinary legal and budgetary principles. By creating arrangements that devote the same scientific effort to diseases of the poor as we put into diseases of the rich, we can make a lasting contribution to the defeat of poverty.
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- ISBN: 9781933286020
- Publication Date: Apr 2005
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