Commonwealth Small States
Issues and Prospects
Paper: 978 0 85092 849 5
Price: $39.00  

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
June 2007 , 340 pp., 8 1/4" x 11"
Small states face unique challenges as they adapt to the demands of an increasingly global economy.

This publication, produced with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, surveys the range of challenges facing small states, including environmental and trade issues; economic problems; the particular challenges facing small states in development, education, and governance; and the issue of regionalism.

The book provides policymakers and parliamentarians worldwide with a detailed insight into how these issues uniquely impact upon small states and offers recommendations on how to strengthen their capacity to exploit the new opportunities and challenges arising from globalization.

Table of Contents:
Foreword—Indrajit Coomaraswamy; Introduction—Eliawony J. Kisanga and Sarah Jane Danchie; PART 1. ENVIRONMENT: 1) Alexander Gillespie—Small Island States in the Face of Climate Change: The End of the Line in International Responsibility; PART 2. TRADE: 2) Roman Grynberg and Jan Yves Remy—Small Vulnerable Economy Issues and the WTO, London; 3) Virginia Horscroft—Small Economies and Special and Differential Treatment: Strengthening the Evidence, Countering the Fallacies; PART 3. ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: 4) Lino Briguglio—Economic Vulnerability and Resilience: Concepts and Measurements; 5) Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables—The Economics of Isolation and Distance; 6) David Joiner and Ganeshan Wignaraja—Measuring Competitiveness in Small States: Introducing the SSMECI; PART 4. REGIONALISM: 7) Claudius Preville—The Establishment of the CSME—A Manifestation of Sir Arthur Lewis’ Vision for the Caribbean; 8) T. K. Jayaraman—Economic Integration in the Pacific: Review of Past Efforts and Future Prospects; 9) Fakahau Fa’asili Ueta, Semisi Fakahau, Michael King and Aliti Vunisea—Development of a Regional Strategic Plan for Fisheries Management and Sustainable Coastal Fisheries in Pacific Island Countries; PART 5. GOVERNANCE: 10) Paul Sutton—Democracy and Good Governance in Small States; 11) Paul Sutton—Public Sector Reform in Small States: Cases from the Commonwealth Caribbean; PART 6. EDUCATION: 12) Commonwealth Secretariat A Summary of “Teaching at risk”–teacher mobility and loss in Commonwealth Member States; PART 7. DEVELOPMENT: 13) Eliawony J Kisanga and Carl Mitchell—Small States and Graduation; 14) Andrew S. Downes—Progress Towards Achieving The Millennium Development Goals in the Small States of the Commonwealth; Index.


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