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Public–Private Partnerships Policy and Practice is a comprehensive reference guide on PPP theory and practice for senior policy-makers and other public sector officials in developing countries.

At its best, strategic planning for an export strategy combines learning from the past, exploring the future and coping with unpredictability.

This is the first study to look at the trade effects on small states of the current global slowdown.

Through twenty regional and country case studies, Trading Stories pulls together the key links between trade, gender and economic development.

It was hoped that trade preferences, offered to exports from developing countries by industrialised countries, would give greater economic benefits than has been the case.

This report covers the work of the 53-nation Commonwealth and its principal intergovernmental organisation, the Commonwealth Secretariat, from July 2007 to June 2009.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics identifies key issues of policy relevance in the debate on biofuel production and the rising food commodity prices contextualised in the WTO trade rules.

Why have the least developed countries, and other poorer countries, failed to grow as fast as other economies during the recent period of globalisation?Professor Srinivasan explores the broad links between growth in income, globalisation, and poverty reduction.

The Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the ECOWAS states of West Africa envisages cooperation between the two sides with the aim of enhancing investment and private sector development in the ECOWAS region.

How can developing country governments seek to initiate the economic transformation that so many desire?For many countries the dramatic shift from low to high added-value activities will involve the export of tradeable services, particularly professional services.

Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa is a two-volume work designed to help trainers develop suitable materials to assist small farmers and producers to supply high quality horticultural produce for sale.This Theoretical Manual takes trainers through a step by step approach of progressive learning.

This Economic Paper considers the likely effects on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries of the European Union’s Directive on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, planned to be implemented from 2010.

The European Union, under its ‘Global Europe’ initiative, has since 2006 been pursuing trade agreements with its major global trading partners.

This Economic Paper presents, for the first time, quantitative evidence of the effectiveness of Aid for Trade, the initiative to promote development by providing resources targeted at boosting involvement in international trade by developing countries.

Since 2003, international prices of a wide range of commodities have surged upwards in dramatic fashion, in many cases more than doubling in the space of a few years or even months.

No government ever has complete uniformity in its policies in the sense that each and every policy aims to achieve the same broad goals.

What have been the consequences of recent regulatory initiatives on international financial centres in small countries?

Trade facilitation has become a hot topic in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations.

After the Hong Kong meetings in December 2005, what are the key trade and development issues that face developing countries in the closing stages of the Doha Round?

Globalisation opens up new economic opportunities if poor women producers and workers are enabled to take advantage of them.

This Commonwealth report presents the pro-development priorities that it recommends should form the core of the Doha Round agreements and sets out the key steps required for a true development round agenda.In the aftermath of the failure of Cancun, there is a need to reassess the direction of global trade negotiations.

This issue of Trade Hot Topics analyses the 2003 Cancún World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting.

This issue of Trade Hot Topics looks closely at the USA–EC and USA–India textiles dispute relating to rules of origin.

This book is a collection of Trade Briefs, intended to serve as sources of information and training, and as reference tools for officials, policy makers and other persons responsible for following negotiations on behalf of Commonwealth developing countries.It focuses on the various multilateral and regional negotiations and in particular, the Doha Development Round and ACP-EU Economic Partnerships Agreements (EPAs).The Papers are presented in a manner which allows for flexibility and accessibility of use.