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Commonwealth News - Issue 451 | 12 August 2009 Full text version
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Finance ministers to share and learn from experience of dealing with economic crisis
Annual meeting will take place immediately prior to the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF
Profile: Mark Bynoe, environmental economist
Scientist is trying to unravel the escalating costs of climate change to the hurricane-prone Caribbean
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Around the Commonwealth: Pharmacists assess global threats to health
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association calls for “alertness” amid swine flu threat

From the Archive: August 1973
Commonwealth wades into campaign for comprehensive test ban on nuclear weapons

Consultation under way for law that will clip wings of vulture funds
Proposed legislation is supported by the Secretariat’s Legal Debt Clinic

Desmond Tutu to deliver Commonwealth Lecture
Annual event aims to stimulate discussion on the Commonwealth

 

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Edited by Tom Baird
Reports by Will Henley

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