Daily List 100

The least developed countries report 2012: harnessing remittances and diaspora knowledge for productive capacities.

Corporate Author:

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

This Report reviews the LDCs' recent economic performance and examines how to enhance developmental impact of remittances and tap into the knowledge pool of its citizens abroad. Given the increasing magnitude of remittances in LDCs, the Report explores both the beneficial as well as possible adverse impacts of this type of private external flow. While remittances are the most visible effect of migration, there are other forms of Diaspora engagement within the home country such as Diaspora knowledge networks that can facilitate technological catch-up in LDCs and therefore enhance development of productive capacities. Through innovative forms of network-based industrial policy, LDCs could offset some of the adverse impacts of brain drain on their economies. The Report concludes with a policy review section containing lessons from international experiences in this area of interest to LDCs.

• ISBN: 9789211128611
• £34.50

Psychotropic substances for 2012: statistics for 2011: assessments of annual medical and scientific requirements.

Corporate Author:

United Nations. International Narcotics Control Board

This publication provides statistics and assessments of annual medical and scientific requirements for psychotropic substances (in schedules II, III and IV of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971), levels of consumption of groups of the substances, prohibitions and restrictions on their export and import. This trilingual publication is in English, French and Spanish.

• ISBN: 9789210481533
• £34.50

Narcotic drugs: estimated world requirements for 2012: statistics for 2011.

Corporate Author:

United Nations. Office on Drugs and Crime

This publication provides analysis of recent trends and statistics for estimated requirements and actual movements of narcotic drugs. Data is provided for specific groups of drugs and countries. The technical data on narcotic drugs are published for control purposes and to meet the needs of researchers, enterprises and the general public. The publication of statistical data provides information for analytical purposes, inter alia, on the availability and use of narcotic drugs in various countries and territories. The publication of estimates and statistics on production, manufacture, stocks and utilisation of narcotic drugs is also intended to furnish producing and manufacturing countries with information on prospective trends. This trilingual publication is in English, French and Spanish.

• ISBN: 9789210481526
• £34.50

Police and Crime Commissioners: register of interests: first report of session 2013-14: report, together with formal minutes.

House of Commons papers (2013-14) - 69.

Corporate Author:

Home Affairs Committee

Author:

Keith Vaz (chairman)

In this, the first register for PCCs, we find that there is a massive gap between Commissioners' costs and their other activities. A system of local scrutiny makes sense for PCCs, but the public cannot possibly judge whether their PCC is upholding the standards of the office and giving them a good deal unless they make a comparison with other PCCs. Some Commissioners have already failed to meet the deadline for publishing information online, but there is no one in Government keeping track. A national register is vital for local accountability. Police and Crime Panels must redouble their oversight of their PCCs. Already there has been a suspension of a chief constable without consultation in Lincolnshire, controversial personal and political appointments without scrutiny by the PCP in Kent and other areas, and PCCs with second, third and even fourth jobs. We need to guard against maverick decision-making. PCCs have national responsibilities as well as local. It is right that they should meet the same standards of disclosure as chief constables. In future, the Government must commission a full register from an independent national body, such as HMIC

• ISBN: 9780215057624
• £11.00

Advances in airborne and ground geophysical methods for Uranium exploration.

IAEA nuclear energy series NF-T-1.5.

Corporate Author:

International Atomic Energy Agency

Due to growing global energy demand, many countries have seen a rise in uranium exploration activities in the past few years, and newly designed geophysical instruments and their application in uranium exploration are contributing to an increased probability of successful discoveries. This publication highlights advances in airborne and ground geophysical techniques and methods for uranium exploration, succinctly describing modern geophysical methods and demonstrating their application with examples.

• ISBN: 9789201290106
• £28.00

GB rail timetable summer edition 13: 19 May 2013 - 07 December 2013.

Corporate Author:

Network Rail

The GB Rail Timetable contains details of rail services operated over the GB rail network, together with rail and shipping connections with Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. Published by TSO with permission from Network Rail (owners of Britain's national railway and stations) the GB Rail Timetable - Summer Edition 2013 holds details on passenger services operated by the train companies who work together to provide a coordinated rail network offering a range of travel opportunities.

• ISBN: 9780117082052
• £18.00