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6 Oct 20
Co-founder of Public Finance by Women Gillian Fawcett outlines the results of a survey on whether gender has been properly taken into account in governments’ financial responses to the pandemic.
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5 Oct 20
More than 200 million doses of a purported vaccine for Covid-19 have been sold by Russia’s sovereign wealth fund to countries desperate for an end to the health crisis.
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1 Oct 20
More than $500m of additional revenue has been secured for developing countries in the past five years through a joint OECD and United Nations tax initiative.
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30 Sep 20
What your organisation needs from you changes over time. This means that you often have to try out new things or take on tasks that are challenging. Therefore, every individual needs to be permeable...
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28 Sep 20
The IMF has lent $90bn since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic – about one-third of its current total lending commitments.
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25 Sep 20
The pandemic presents an opportunity for governments to engender a “green reboot” of the global economy, argues CIPFA’s chief economist Jeffrey Matsu.
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25 Sep 20
Curbing corruption is more important than ever amid the pandemic, the World Bank has argued in a report.
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22 Sep 20
Developing economies have some breathing space to deal with Covid-19 thanks to intervention by global financial institutions. But will piling up debt make recovery prospects even more precarious?
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18 Sep 20
For a finance business partner, the ability to present information, data and insight with both precision and clarity is absolutely crucial in communicating your findings effectively.
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14 Sep 20
An equal number of men and women will lead the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board for the first time, following the appointment of three new members.
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4 Sep 20
Raising taxes too quickly would risk harming countries’ economic recovery from the effects of Covid-19, the OECD has warned.
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3 Sep 20
Treasury management is as much about managing relationships as it is cash and risk. Together credibility, trust and understanding create the foundation upon which effective treasury management can be...
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2 Sep 20
The UK will reform the body that scrutinises its aid spending as it merges its international development department with the Foreign Office, the government has announced.
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19 Aug 20
CIPFA’s Alan Edwards has been appointed as chair of a committee working to improve public financial management in the Asia Pacific region.
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18 Aug 20
Poor countries’ debt payments have reached their highest level since 2001, having grown by 115% in the past decade, new analysis has found.
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11 Aug 20
Accounting standards are changing all the time, and new ones are being released frequently. Here’s how to think through the impact on your organisation and prepare well using a three-stage approach.
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7 Aug 20
The world’s largest multilateral development banks committed $61.6bn of climate finance in 2019, a joint report has shown.
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4 Aug 20
CIPFA’s chief economist Jeffrey Matsu argues that the pandemic represents “time for a reboot” in the way we think about development.
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24 Jul 20
The economic damage caused by Covid-19 has led to the UK cutting its international aid budget for 2020 by £2.9bn.
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24 Jul 20
As in any crisis, financial criminals have been making the most of COVID-19 to profit for themselves, repurposing tried and tested fraud techniques to take advantage of this current situation. As...
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17 Jul 20
Some coronavirus loans from the IMF are effectively being used to pay back loans from private lenders, without any of the money being used by the countries themselves to respond to the pandemic, a...
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9 Jul 20
Governments and organisations, including multilateral development banks, are funding tens of billions of dollars in development projects and programs to help countries respond to Covid-19. The...
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7 Jul 20
Global poverty is rising despite “triumphalism” about its perceived decline, according to a global report from a former United Nations official, who also released specific reports on Malaysia and...
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7 Jul 20
Proponents of universal basic income believe their case has been strengthened by the sudden shock of the pandemic, with several countries implementing emergency schemes, but what form should it take...
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6 Jul 20
Sovereign wealth and pension funds should seek investments that couple financial returns with societal and environmental benefits, researchers from the Inter-American Development Bank have argued.