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The Role of Public Administration in Economic Growth and Job Creation

Effective public administration vital for socio-economic development – Commonwealth Secretary-General at the Commonwealth Public Service Ministers Forum

A handbook to equip developing countries with options to negotiate and strike investment agreements that promote sustainable development, growth with jobs and improved livelihoods is to be launched on 29 October 2012.

The Fourth Commonwealth Public Service Ministers Forum which will take place in New Delhi, India, from 24-26 October 2012, is aimed at enhancing public policy to foster economic growth and employment.

Ugandan farmers have produced exceptional range of delicious foods - Project Director

Shock financing, youth unemployment, the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals and private sector participation discussed at Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting

The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting 2012 will take place in Tokyo, Japan, on 10 October.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General addresses Pan African Parliament on post-Millennium Development Goals framework

A new software to help countries plan, analyse and manage sovereign debt was launched on 10 October during the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in Tokyo, Japan.

Commonwealth Secretariat Director of Economic Affairs Dr Rustomjee

"Taxpayers want to see their taxes spent reasonably. All these make public procurement so important and therefore a subject of tight scrutiny because where large sums of money are involved, vulnerability to abuse increases" - Tanzania Deputy Minister of Finance

Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has called for an enshrining of a ‘Right to Trade’ in the global trading regime, as a new initiative to help the trade performances of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable economies.

Professor Stiglitz participated in a Commonwealth roundtable on Aid for Trade on 29 August. Following the discussion he spoke to the Commonwealth about trade, the current global economic situation and the multilateral trading system

A series of historic treaties to settle maritime boundaries in the Pacific were signed today at the 43rd Pacific Islands Forum in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Dialogue and development key to deepening and broadening scope of collaboration.

Commonwealth instrumental in facilitating collaboration of continental shelf oversight

Renowned Nobel Laureate and Columbia University economics professor Joseph Stiglitz will speak at a Commonwealth round table discussion on aid for trade in London on 29 August 2012.

Delegates will discuss technology and integrity in elections

Eighteen Commonwealth countries shared their plans for moving from fragile to robust accounting standards for greater economic prosperity at a Commonwealth Secretariat meeting from 18 to 20 June 2012.

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Organisations will co-operate on dealing with climate change and promoting sustainable development

Explore this visual journey on how the Commonwealth Secretariat works with member countries towards the themes of the Rio+20 Earth Conference

Article by the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie as leaders discuss global issues at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico

London, 13 June 2012 – The Commonwealth Secretariat has partnered with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, the Indian Ocean Commission and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme to organise a high-level panel discussion that will highlight the sustainable development concerns of small and small island developing states (SIDS) at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – also known as the Rio+20 Earth Conference – in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Projects must be bankable to attract private sector funding