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28 Aug 15
A round-up of public finance news stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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25 Aug 15
The Chinese government has allowed the country’s main state pension fund to invest in the stock market for the first time as part of efforts to halt the fall in share prices that has led to increased...
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24 Aug 15
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $1bn loan to give Kazakhstan ‘fiscal leeway’ amid economic challenges in the country.
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21 Aug 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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19 Aug 15
The International Monetary Fund has endorsed the Chinese government’s economic strategy but has forecast that the country will not grow as quickly in 2015 compared to last year.
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14 Aug 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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14 Aug 15
Credit rating agency Fitch has said the introduction of a nationwide residential property tax in China would provide more “stable, sustainable and diversified revenues” for local...
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12 Aug 15
China’s surprise move to devalue its yuan is not the start of a currency war or an attempt to jump-start economic growth, “it is more structural reform”, Standard & Poor’s...
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11 Aug 15
The Asian Development Bank is to lend $27.5m to Nepal, which the country will use for budget support to help it recover from its two devastating earthquakes.
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7 Aug 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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6 Aug 15
More than 1 billion people in Asia do not have access to safe drinking water despite the region’s dynamism and strong economic growth, the Asian Development Bank has warned.
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5 Aug 15
The World Bank has urged Pakistan to expand its tax base and strengthen governance in order to boost public services and increase economic growth, which in turn will reduce extreme poverty.
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5 Aug 15
Foreign governments and international donors are moving quickly to get much-needed help to Myanmar after it was hit by the worst floods for 100 years.
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3 Aug 15
The International Monetary Fund has approved a $49.7m economic development loan for Nepal to help it recover and rebuild from the two devastating earthquakes that hit the country earlier this year.
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31 Jul 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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24 Jul 15
Abenomics has worked, but Japan need to maintain its focus on economic and fiscal reform in order to bring about a “once-in-a-lifetime” regime shift, the International Monetary Fund said...
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22 Jul 15
The BRICS group of emerging economies launched their own development bank in Shanghai yesterday to boost funding for infrastructure and development across the five countries.
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20 Jul 15
Developing capacity for better government accounting: a panel debate recorded at the CIPFA International Seminar in London on 7 July 2015:
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20 Jul 15
China has boosted its emerging role as one of the world’s major international aid donors, signing to an agreement with the World Bank to establish a $50m fund to reduce poverty.
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17 Jul 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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15 Jul 15
World Trade Organisation director general Roberto Azevêdo called on development partners to continue working together to close major trade finance gaps in Africa and Asia.
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10 Jul 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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3 Jul 15
3 July 2015A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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2 Jul 15
The poverty rate in Mongolia last year stood at 21.6%, down from 27.4% in 2012 and driven by the continued growth in livestock incomes, pensions and real wages, the World Bank has revealed.
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1 Jul 15
China is to work with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to improve macroeconomic management, deliver structural reforms and strengthen governance.