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Author:   Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher:   Henley Media Group Ltd
Imprint:   Henley Media Group Ltd
ISBN:  

9780956372208

ISBN 10:   0956372201
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   06 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Forewords: Charilaos Stavrakis, Finance Minister of the Republic of Cyprus and Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General; Section 1: Global Economic Situation; Excess capacity in developing economies: the impact of the global recession by Justin Lin, Senior Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist, The World Bank; The IMF response to the global crisis: meeting the needs of low-income countries by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; The Commonwealth and the economic crisis by Cyrus Rustomjee, Director of Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat; The Worst Crisis - and the best opportunity by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank; A global rethink for a rainbow recovery by Dirk Willem te Velde, Programme Leader, Overseas Development Institute; Foreign investment and development: the role of domestic policy and international investment agreements by Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, Oxford University; Section 2: Millennium Development Goals; Strengthening the campaign for development through to 2015 by Jamie Drummond, Executive Director and Co-founder, ONE; Maternal health - at the centre of development by Sarah Brown, Patron, White Ribbon Alliance; Healthcare capacity building in fragile states by Josephine Garnem, International Medical Corps; The silent crisis - why we need a global framework for action on water and sanitation by Barbara Frost, Chief Executive, WaterAid; Is the crisis over? Not the one that affects the hungry by Dame Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive, Oxfam; Education: the other global crisis by Dr Pauline Rose, Senior Policy Analyst, Education for All, Global Monitoring Report Team; Universities: essential for economic and social development by Professor John Tarrant, Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities; Gender in the financial crisis by Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at Lancaster University; Aid and AIDS: policy changes and responses in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia by Dr Degol Hailu, UNDP International Policy Centre; Section 3: Effective Financial Management; The Commonwealth and reform of international institutions by Jonathan Ockenden, Head, Finance Section, Economic Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat; Reframing micro-finance: enabling small savings and payments, everywhere by Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; The importance of fostering entrepreneurs in developing countries by Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group; The last frontier: bringing financial services to Africa's poor by Dr Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE USA and Geoffrey Dennis, Chief Executive of CARE International UK; Market and technology trends in secure documents by Michael Chamberlain, Chief Consultant, Pira International; Mobile banking: the potential to provide millions with financial access by Mike Foster, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, UK Department for International Development; Section 4: Infrastructure for Development; Public-private partnerships for infrastructure in the Asia and Pacific region: priority issues and challenges by Elaine Glennie, Senior Capacity Building Specialist, Asian Development Bank Institute; Infrastructure for economic growth and development: the financing gap by Dr Michael Regan, Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development; Urban transport: moving from the 19th century to the 21st century concerns by Dinesh Mohan, Co-ordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology; Non-conventional approaches to municipal infrastructure financing by Munawwar Alam, Adviser, Commonwealth Secretariat; Tourism as a poverty reduction tool: strategies for small island states by Dr Regina Scheyvens, Head of the Institute of Development Studies, Massey University; Understanding the recent oil price volatility by Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); Section 5: Environmental Finance; Green jobs: now is the time by Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization; Renewable energy: time to disprove the myths by Dr Hermann Scheer, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy; Multiple global problems need integrated solutions: applying the sustainomics framework by Mohan Munasinghe, Director General, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester; Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka; and Co-laureate 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

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