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21 Jan 19
China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in nearly 30 years last year amid the ongoing trade tension with the US.
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17 Jan 19
China’s anti-corruption watchdog will crack down on fraud in education, health and areas of concern to the public, it has announced.
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17 Jan 19
Investing in people and public services will help Thailand become a high-income country, the World Bank has suggested.
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16 Jan 19
India is providing public financial management training to civil servants from the Ministry of Finance in Nepal.
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11 Jan 19
The World Bank and Bangladesh have signed a $250m agreement to create more jobs to boost economic growth in the south Asian country.
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8 Jan 19
Indonesia will more than double its disaster response budget to 15 trillion rupiah ($1.06bn) this year after a series of major natural disasters in 2018, officials have said.
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21 Dec 18
Spending more on health, education and social services could boost the Chinese economy, the World Bank has urged.
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19 Dec 18
India will help the Maldives boost economic and social development through a $1.4bn support package, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
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17 Dec 18
Australia is a developed resource rich country - yet it is losing billions of Australian dollars through mineral extraction, explains the Goa Foundation’s Rahul Basu.
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14 Dec 18
The Asian Development Bank and Pakistan have signed an agreement worth $284m to provide a more stable and secure electricity supply in the country.
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10 Dec 18
Armenia’s acting prime minister has won the majority of the vote in the country’s snap election on a promise to tackle corruption and reform the economy.
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10 Dec 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $100m loan to India’s Punjab state following improvements in fiscal responsibility and budget management.
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3 Dec 18
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati will be supported to improve its public finances and boost economic growth through better regulation.
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3 Dec 18
Zimbabwe will get a new parliament building with help from China, the information ministry has tweeted.
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27 Nov 18
To run a truly global foreign policy, the ultimate challenge for China is winning hearts and minds rather than showering cash, says Chatham House’s Dr Yu Jie.
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26 Nov 18
The Philippine government is overhauling its procurement system as part of wide-ranging plans to digitise financial management systems and improve transparency.
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26 Nov 18
Sustainable development projects in Central Asia have been given a €124m funding boost from the European Commission.
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22 Nov 18
Police officers and soldiers have stormed the parliament of Papua New Guinea over unpaid wages for an international summit that wrapped up just days ago.
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22 Nov 18
Indian Railways has decided to build walls to fence its tracks to prevent trespassing, costing billions of rupees.
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20 Nov 18
New Zealand’s wellbeing budget has the potential to bring greater coherence and formality to the reporting of outcomes, says emeritus chair of CIPFA International Ian Ball.
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19 Nov 18
Timor-Leste needs to “sustainably manage” its public finances to ensure it doesn’t spend too much too quickly as its natural resources run low, the World Bank has warned.
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19 Nov 18
For the first time, world leaders wrapped up an Asian economic summit without a formal joint statement because of trade tensions between the US and China.
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19 Nov 18
No developing country will fall into a ‘debt trap’ by working with Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry has said in response to US criticism.
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12 Nov 18
A former deputy labour minister in Vietnam has been arrested on allegations of financial mismanagement as part of a crackdown on corruption.
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12 Nov 18
Australia’s prime minister has announced a multi-billion-dollar fund for Pacific island nations to build infrastructure.