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Editorial Comment ; Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. ; This is the author's accepted version. ; Editorial Comment

Discusses factors which impede development, a framework for development, role of international corporations, and international support for reducing poverty in developing countries; views of the Commonwealth deputy secretary-general.

THE COMMONWEALTH IS THE LARGEST WORLD GROUPING TO PROFESS THE SAME SYSTEM OF VALUES AND TO FUNCTION IN THE SAME LANGUAGE. ITS SURVIVAL CAN TO ATTRIBUTED TO ITS LACK OF A CONSTITUTION, CHARTER OR RULES OF PROCEDURE. INDIA REMAINED IN MEMBERSHIP AFTER DECLARING ITSELF A REPUBLIC AFTER INDEPENDENCE. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT OCCASIONAL SIGNS THAT INDIA BELIEVES THAT THE COMMONWEALTH IS AN ANGLO-CENTRIC HANGOVER FROM EMPIRE IS A RELIC OF A MISINFORMED THEORY EXPLORED BY NEHRU IN 1949.

RUUD LUBBERS WAS PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS FROM 1982 TO 1994. HIS SECOND TERM OF OFFICE, FROM 1986 TO 1989, WAS CHARACTERIZED BY A SEARCH FOR PERFECTION AT HOME AND ABROAD WHICH CREATED OCCASIONAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN A HIGH MORAL TONE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND COMMERCIAL AND TRADE IMPERATIVES. WHILE THE NETHERLANDS REMAINED A LEADING AID DONOR NATION, THESE CONDITIONS CREATED LOCALIZED TENSIONS. AT HOME, LUBBERS'S DETERMINATION TO REDUCE PUBLIC SPENDING WHILE CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT PUT STRAINS ON THE COALITIONS, WHICH EVENTUALLY FELL IN 1989. LUBBERS RESIGNED BUT WAS RE-ELECTED AT THE HEAD OF A COALITION WITH THE LABOR PARTY.