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14 Dec 18
China could cut tariffs on US-made cars to 15% from the current 40%, undoing the import duty hike it introduced this summer.
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13 Dec 18
Attempts to make aid spending by private organisations more transparent continued to stall, which NGOs have warned could harm some of the world’s poorest communities.
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11 Dec 18
A new financial crisis is brewing but countries are not prepared, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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10 Dec 18
Countries around the world need a “big rethink” on their investment in education, the International Monetary Fund’s outgoing chief economist has urged.
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10 Dec 18
Meeting internationally agreed climate goals could save trillions of dollars lost as a result of air pollution globally, according to the World Health Organization.
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7 Dec 18
IPSASB’s social benefits standard has finally been approved after 16 years but this is just the start and it is likely to be reviewed after a few years of use, says the board’s Paul Mason.
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7 Dec 18
During the IFAC Professional Accountancy Organization Development Committee meeting in October 2018, committee members engaged in a day of creative thinking about the future-ready PAO. CIPFA’s Alan...
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6 Dec 18
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has reached a “major milestone”, approving the standard on accounting for social benefits after 16 years of discussion.
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4 Dec 18
The world’s most powerful economies have agreed to improve the global trading system as US president Donald Trump delays Chinese tariffs.
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3 Dec 18
International aid earmarked for climate projects increased by 17% to $56.7bn in 2017, continuing a trend of rising funding for this area, OECD data showed.
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30 Nov 18
Some form of relief scheme is needed for smaller states that have suffered natural disasters to get debt down to a sustainable level, suggests Jubilee Debt Campaign’s Tim Jones.
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30 Nov 18
G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
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30 Nov 18
A top UK Department for International Development civil servant has vowed to fight attempts to spend increasing amounts of aid money outside his department.
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30 Nov 18
CIPFA is looking for public finance practitioners to submit and review articles for its international journal Public Money & Management (PMM).
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29 Nov 18
Loan conditions imposed by the IMF are leaving countries struggling to pay for basic healthcare, according to a network of civil society organisations.
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27 Nov 18
The move to accrual accounting by the world’s most powerful economies could put “healthy” peer pressure on others to follow suit, the global accountancy body has said.
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19 Nov 18
The World Bank and the Danish government have pulled hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and loans from Tanzania over human rights concerns.
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14 Nov 18
The UK could follow Donald Trump’s lead and stop funding Unesco, the UN’s cultural and education body, saving £11.1m a year.
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14 Nov 18
Borrowing by low and middle-income countries more than tripled in 2017 compared to the year before, World Bank statistics have revealed.
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13 Nov 18
It’s time to provide clarity on legal definitions to improve Macedonia’s VAT system, says professor of economics Marjan Petreski.
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9 Nov 18
Tying ODA to buying goods or services from companies in the donor country puts the interests of these firms before the people in need, says Eurodad’s Polly Meeks.
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8 Nov 18
The UK is giving £50m to help stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth in developing countries.
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4 Nov 18
Almost two thirds of governments around the world will shift to accrual-based accounting within the next five years, CIPFA and the International Federation of Accountants have predicted.
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1 Nov 18
Wealthy countries faced with economic shocks after natural disasters will be able to apply for official development assistance as international aid rules are changed.
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31 Oct 18
The UK may have exaggerated the number of women’s lives saved through its maternal health and family planning programmes, an aid watchdog has claimed.