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Recent Publications

Beautiful but Costly: Business Costs in Small Remote Economies, by Pedro M G Martins, is a study of the operating costs facing the private sector in small economies and whether they act as an impediment to trade and investment. Small countries have often argued that the interaction of factors such as diseconomies of scale, high costs for imported inputs, the cost of isolation and remoteness, and the cost of physical dispersion hinder their ability to attract foreign investment in a globalised market. The outcome of the study provides speculation on the type of policy interventions the international community could devise to assist those countries that face high costs structures by virtue of their inherent structural characteristics.
2005; Price: GBP 11.99. ISBN: 0-85092-810-9. 

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International Financial Services Sectors in Small Vulnerable Economies: Challenges and Prospects by Percy Mistry, Jason Sharman, Sir K Dwight Venner and Daniel Boamah, edited by Andreas Antoniou, is a collection of papers on current trends in financial regulation and supervision and their impact on small vulnerable economies. Some of the areas examined include international financial regulation and supervision, and political strategies for protecting small states' interests in global regulatory reform. Useful for policy-makers and academics.
2005: pp 256. Price: GBP10.00. ISBN 0-85092-774-9.

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Small States Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 10 previously published under the title 'Basic Statistical Data on Selected Countries (with populations of less than 5 million)'. This annual collection of key economic and statistical data on the world's small states is an essential reference for economists, planners and policy-makers.
 
As in previous issues, the publication is in two parts. The first part focuses on the recent economic performance of Commonwealth small states, looking at growth, employment, inflation and economic policy issues, and offers a deeper understanding of developments behind the statistics.
 
Two feature articles are also included. The first, 'Progress Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Small States of the Commonwealth', by Professor Andrew S Downes, University of the West Indies, examines the basic features of Commonwealth small states and discusses progress made towards achieving the eight MDGs in the 32 small states of the Commonwealth. The second feature, 'Small Economies and Special and Differential Treatment: Strengthening the Evidence, Countering the Fallacies' by Virginia Horscroft, argues that the peculiar characteristics of small economies - their size, vulnerability and governance capacity - combine to constrain their ability to benefit from the globalisation of markets under current trade rules. The article contests the assertion that it is necessarily the case that currently-agreed and emerging international trade rules are beneficial for all states.
 
The second part of the book provides social and economic data on small states. There are 51 tables and 11 charts covering selected economic and social indicators culled from international and national sources, and presenting information unavailable elsewhere. 2006: pp 178. Price: GBP25.00. ISBN 0-85092-831-1.

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Payment must be in sterling, drawn on a UK bank and made out to the Commonwealth Secretariat. If you require the order form as an attachment in Word format please email the Commonwealth Secretariat Publications Unit.
 
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