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25 Nov 21
More than 300 million more people in India will receive Covid-19 vaccines following the approval of a loan from the Asian Development Bank.
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24 Nov 21
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has raised interest rates for the second time in two months to help manage soaring inflation and house prices.
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22 Nov 21
The International Monetary Fund will resume a $6bn programme with Pakistan it paused in April, following negotiations that took more than a month to complete.
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15 Nov 21
Bhutan’s adoption of an index measuring gross national happiness has helped guide the country’s response to Covid-19.
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11 Nov 21
Pacific countries struggling against the effects of climate change need financial solutions that do not increase their debt, the prime minister of the Cook Islands has said.
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8 Nov 21
The Japanese government plans to spend big on a series of measures aimed at helping the economy through its ongoing struggle with Covid-19, according to reports.
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3 Nov 21
The Asian Development Bank has launched two multi-billion-dollar pilots aimed at the early retirement or repurposing of coal power plants, to help meet long-term climate goals.
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2 Nov 21
The Reserve Bank of Australia has abandoned the yield target policy it introduced at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, recognising that a rate rise could come sooner than previously expected.
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2 Nov 21
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has called for improved finance opportunities to help address climate change, after the nation pledged to hit carbon neutrality by 2070.
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25 Oct 21
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has hailed his country’s Covid-19 vaccine drive as setting “new benchmarks of public service delivery” and spurring the economic recovery.
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15 Oct 21
Japan’s new prime minister has set up a taskforce to reduce wealth disparities in a bid to create a “virtuous cycle of growth and distribution”, claiming market forces have left some people behind.
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12 Oct 21
The New Zealand government was able to post a much smaller deficit in its 2021 budget, due to a stronger than predicted economic rebound from Covid-19.
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11 Oct 21
The Australian Treasury has revealed it paid out $27bn (£14.6bn) in Covid-19 support payments to businesses that did not meet the criteria, but said it did not ask for the money back to protect the...
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6 Oct 21
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has raised its interest rate to help reduce soaring property prices.
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6 Oct 21
Ratings agency Moody’s has upgraded the outlook on India’s credit rating to stable from negative based on optimism about a reduction in the government deficit.
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1 Oct 21
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after corruption investigators announced they were looking into whether she had acted dishonestly regarding public grant funding.
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29 Sep 21
Lower and middle income countries have far more debt to China than many institutions believe, and the problem is becoming worse, a US study has found.
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29 Sep 21
The Indonesia government is set to spend $190bn next year, as the nation aims to gradually reduce its deficit to 3% of GDP.
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17 Sep 21
World Bank economists have urged Bangladesh to redirect social protection schemes towards the urban poor, saying the move could cut the extreme poverty rate from 22% to just 4%.
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14 Sep 21
Malaysia’s cabinet wants to increase the government’s legal debt limit for the second time in two years, to allow it to continue to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
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9 Sep 21
Chinese government revenue and spending could match for the first time in more than three decades, even with Beijing looking to spur the economic recovery from Covid-19, a researcher has found.
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1 Sep 21
South Korea is looking to create a “virtuous cycle” of public spending and economic growth, unveiling its 2022 budget which is set to take government debt over 50% of GDP for the first time.
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27 Aug 21
Australia’s Future Fund has reported a return of 22% - its highest ever - during the last fiscal year, with its portfolio ending up worth $197bn (£105bn).
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27 Aug 21
The Bank of Korea has raised its base rate for the first time since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, becoming the first central bank to do so among the large Asian economies.
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25 Aug 21
The World Bank has stopped funding aid programmes in Afghanistan in light of the Taliban taking control of the country.