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9 Feb 16
The International Monetary Fund has encouraged New Zealand to tackle its “chronically low” national saving levels and heavy reliance on offshore funding.
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8 Feb 16
India has overtaken China as the world’s fastest growing economy, according to figures published by the country’s Central Statistics Office.
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8 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation will provide loans worth $300m to telecommunications company Ooredoo to rollout a mobile network across Myanmar.
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5 Feb 16
The International Monetary Fund has urged the government of Sri Lanka to fix its public finances after the country missed its budget target and public debt rose to over 74% of gross domestic product...
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3 Feb 16
India has gone ahead with structural reforms to its tax policy institutions with the formation of two new bodies it hopes will achieve a more coherent and independent approach to analysing new...
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2 Feb 16
The United Nations emergency response fund has released $100m for severely under-funded aid operations in nine neglected emergencies across Africa and in North Korea.
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29 Jan 16
The latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
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28 Jan 16
India and the World Bank have agreed finance deals worth $575m that are intended to support the country’s disaster resilience and health services.
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26 Jan 16
World economic growth will fall to its lowest rate since the financial crisis this year and could be as little as 2%, the Centre for Economics and Business Research has forecast.
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25 Jan 16
A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
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21 Jan 16
Cambodia must tackle its skills gap and boost productivity if the country is to maintain its impressive growth, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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18 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank is extending a loan to an international leasing company to up to $75m to help the firm expand badly needed funding for healthcare equipment and facilities in China.
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18 Jan 16
The new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was formally opened by Chinese president Xi Jinping over the weekend.
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15 Jan 16
Myanmar has announced new requirements for assessing the environmental and social impacts of development projects, which have been worked up with assistance from the Asian Development Bank.
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15 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
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14 Jan 16
The president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will visit China this week to finalise the country’s membership of the bank.
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14 Jan 16
Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is neither robust or inclusive enough to support the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...
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12 Jan 16
The International Monetary Fund is to release around $498.1m to Pakistan following a successful review of the country’s performance under an IMF budget support programme.
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11 Jan 16
Housing construction has hit an all-time high in New Zealand thanks to the government’s housing policies, the country’s building and housing and environment minister has declared.
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8 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank approved a total of $27.15bn in funding in 2015 – an all-time high and a 19% increase on the year before.
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7 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank has returned to the US dollar bond market with a $3.25bn three-year global benchmark bond – its largest-ever global benchmark transaction to date.
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6 Jan 16
The World Bank has approved $277m in financing for Bangladesh to help 19.5 million children complete primary school and increase the country’s low-cost energy supply.
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17 Dec 15
The Asian Development Bank has approved a suite of reforms which it says will bring in a “stronger, better and faster” ADB.
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17 Dec 15
China has become the 77th party to an OECD agreement enabling the automatic annual exchange of tax-related information.
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16 Dec 15
Increased capital spending in Indonesia could spur higher growth in the country in 2016, the World Bank has said.
9 Feb 16The International Monetary Fund has encouraged New Zealand to tackle its “chronically low” national saving levels and heavy reliance on offshore funding.
8 Feb 16India has overtaken China as the world’s fastest growing economy, according to figures published by the country’s Central Statistics Office.
8 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation will provide loans worth $300m to telecommunications company Ooredoo to rollout a mobile network across Myanmar.
5 Feb 16The International Monetary Fund has urged the government of Sri Lanka to fix its public finances after the country missed its budget target and public debt rose to over 74% of gross domestic product...
3 Feb 16India has gone ahead with structural reforms to its tax policy institutions with the formation of two new bodies it hopes will achieve a more coherent and independent approach to analysing new...
2 Feb 16The United Nations emergency response fund has released $100m for severely under-funded aid operations in nine neglected emergencies across Africa and in North Korea.
29 Jan 16The latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
28 Jan 16India and the World Bank have agreed finance deals worth $575m that are intended to support the country’s disaster resilience and health services.
26 Jan 16World economic growth will fall to its lowest rate since the financial crisis this year and could be as little as 2%, the Centre for Economics and Business Research has forecast.
25 Jan 16A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
21 Jan 16Cambodia must tackle its skills gap and boost productivity if the country is to maintain its impressive growth, the Asian Development Bank has said.
18 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank is extending a loan to an international leasing company to up to $75m to help the firm expand badly needed funding for healthcare equipment and facilities in China.
18 Jan 16The new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was formally opened by Chinese president Xi Jinping over the weekend.
15 Jan 16Myanmar has announced new requirements for assessing the environmental and social impacts of development projects, which have been worked up with assistance from the Asian Development Bank.
15 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
14 Jan 16The president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will visit China this week to finalise the country’s membership of the bank.
14 Jan 16Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is neither robust or inclusive enough to support the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...
12 Jan 16The International Monetary Fund is to release around $498.1m to Pakistan following a successful review of the country’s performance under an IMF budget support programme.
7 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank has returned to the US dollar bond market with a $3.25bn three-year global benchmark bond – its largest-ever global benchmark transaction to date.
6 Jan 16The World Bank has approved $277m in financing for Bangladesh to help 19.5 million children complete primary school and increase the country’s low-cost energy supply.
17 Dec 15China has become the 77th party to an OECD agreement enabling the automatic annual exchange of tax-related information.
16 Dec 15Increased capital spending in Indonesia could spur higher growth in the country in 2016, the World Bank has said.
