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12 Sep 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said Laos must maintain “the momentum of fiscal consolidation” to safeguard its transition to a lower-middle income country.
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8 Sep 16
A plan to introduce surcharges on three of India’s most popular train routes from Friday has sparked uproar on social media.
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7 Sep 16
Australia’s economy can now boast a quarter of a century without recession after official figures showed the economy grew 3.3% in the year to June.
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7 Sep 16
Provincial pension funds throughout China are struggling to break even after the government ordered a 6.5% increase on the basic pension for corporate retirees, according to state news agency Xinhua...
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5 Sep 16
The Asian Development Bank has raised a further $104m through an additional issue of offshore Indian Rupee-denominated bonds, its biggest Indian rupee issuance to date.
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5 Sep 16
Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned his fellow G20 leaders from allowing their latest meeting to become an empty “talk shop” as rising protectionism, sluggish investment and geopolitical risks...
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2 Sep 16
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak is the mysterious unnamed official cited as a key figure in the billion-dollar looting of the country’s wealth fund, according to a senior member of his own...
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2 Sep 16
Millions of workers across India are on strike today to protest what they see as anti-labour policies driven by prime minister Narendra Modi.
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1 Sep 16
The World Bank has launched its Special Drawing Rights-denominated bond programme, marking the first ever publicly issued SDR bond, and the bank’s inaugural issue on the Chinese market.
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23 Aug 16
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $810m loan to develop Pakistan’s power transmission system, it was announced today.
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19 Aug 16
The World Bank unveiled its new procurement framework in Sri Lanka yesterday, which it said will help countries make the most of their public spending, strengthen national policies and improve...
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16 Aug 16
Public funding for skills development initiatives should be tied to the programme’s labour market outcomes, the director of strategy and operations at the human development practice in the World Bank...
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15 Aug 16
The World Bank is the first entity to receive approval to issue bonds backed by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights reserve asset in China.
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15 Aug 16
The International Monetary Fund has warned China to stem the unsustainable growth of indebtedness across its state-owned firms in its latest check up of the country’s economy, published on Friday.
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12 Aug 16
China’s economy is still struggling with the pains of transformation, according to data published today.
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11 Aug 16
Singapore has cut its economic growth forecasts in light of increasing global uncertainly caused in part by the Brexit vote.
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8 Aug 16
Tougher international tax laws around foreign trusts have been proposed in New Zealand in line with recommendations made in an inquiry set up in response to the Panama Papers.
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5 Aug 16
Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously re-elected for a second term by the bank’s board of governors.
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4 Aug 16
Tackling Asia and the Pacific’s “missing middle” in social protection will be critical for the region’s inclusive growth and sustainable development, the Asian Development Bank’s vice-president has...
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4 Aug 16
An historic tax reform that will help create a single market in India has been backed by the country’s parliament.
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3 Aug 16
Recent economic policy decisions made by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe have achieved partial success but now need to be upgraded, the IMF has said.
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2 Aug 16
A carbon tax in China could cut greenhouse gases, save millions of lives and improve public finances
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28 Jul 16
The Asian Development Bank has raised around $74m from the issuance of five-year, offshore Indian rupee-linked bonds.
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28 Jul 16
Japan will launch a 28 trillion yen ($266bn) economic stimulus package in another attempt to kickstart the country’s ailing economy, according to reports.
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25 Jul 16
Public procurement in Bangladesh is to be upgraded and expanded with an additional $10m in World Bank cash.