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20 Jun 18
China will give more than $100m in military aid to Cambodia, to be use for “any necessary need”, it has been announced.
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19 Jun 18
Bad management and a lack of infrastructure investment are contributing to major water shortages and access problems in India, a think-tank has warned.
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18 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $6.8m grant to help the government of Tonga reconstruct and improve disaster resilience of its electricity network.
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12 Jun 18
Bangladesh must boost investment to ease infrastructure bottlenecks if it is to maintain progress towards becoming a middle-income economy, the IMF has said.
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8 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank is lending Indonesia $1bn to strengthen reforms to public financial management and bring it in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
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8 Jun 18
The World Bank is giving the Maldives $12m to help the island territory in the Indian Ocean improve the way it manages its public finances.
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7 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank will provide more than $1bn to Pacific countries to help them prepare for a “renewable energy future” by 2021, it has announced.
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6 Jun 18
Thailand must implement structural reforms to achieve “broad-based” economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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4 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank has awarded loans worth $195m to help Papua New Guinea deliver affordable and high-quality health services.
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29 May 18
New Zealand will transform the way its public sector works together when it brings in the world’s first ‘wellbeing budget’, a Treasury official has told PF International.
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25 May 18
The Asian Development Bank and the government of Laos have signed a $30m grant to improve the health sector and its financial management.
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25 May 18
The Nepalese government is working on improving governance to boost development and social transformation as part of its attempt to move away from ‘developed country status’.
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24 May 18
One third of the Asian Development Bank’s programmes are unlikely to be sustainable after they have been completed, the bank’s independent evaluation department has said.
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22 May 18
Sri Lanka’s debt crisis will worsen as a series of costly projects commissioned by the former government has resulted in record-high repayments, the country’s finance minister has said.
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18 May 18
The New Zealand coalition has delivered a big boost for public services in its first budget, including NZ$3.2bn extra for health services and a new state housing programme.
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18 May 18
Indonesia should continue to strengthen its public financial management in the face of slower growth and rising inequality in the country, a World Bank report has said.
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17 May 18
Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter of 2018 for the first time in two years, official data has shown.
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15 May 18
The Asian Development Bank and the Pakistan government have agreed to work together to ‘upscale’ public private partnerships in the country.
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9 May 18
New Zealand will boost its overseas development spending by NZ$714.2m to respond to global emergencies and issues.
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9 May 18
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing financing to build the largest solar plant in Mongolia.
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9 May 18
The Australian state of New South Wales has unveiled a AU$34m plan to help protect the koala population, which has dropped drastically over the past two decades.
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8 May 18
Public and the private sector organisations need to be ‘well-aligned’ if partnerships between the two are to be successful, CIPFA’s president has said in Pakistan today.
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4 May 18
The Asian Development Bank and The Republic of Korea have agreed to step up efforts to provide more financing and technical assistance to the bank’s developing member countries.
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4 May 18
Universities can provide a significant contribution to the public good and boost a country’s economy, argues the Asian Development Bank’s Erik Bloom.
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4 May 18
Indian Railways – one of the biggest public sector employers in the world – is starting a move to implement accruals as part of a major reform of its accounting system.