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19 Apr 18
The digital revolution and rapidly changing nature of work are fuelling instability and status anxiety. Policymakers need restore trust in welfare states, says the OECD’s Stefano Scarpetta.
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18 Apr 18
Commonwealth countries are to increase efforts to stamp out human trafficking and child exploitation.
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18 Apr 18
The International Monetary Fund has warned governments around the world to take advantage of favourable economic conditions to build policies to protect economies against a downturn.
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17 Apr 18
The World Bank should stop funding and promoting public private partnerships until a review of their effectiveness has been done, an NGO umbrella group has called for today.
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13 Apr 18
Commonwealth member states must create 50,000 jobs every day to provide work for the growing number of young people seeking work, the Overseas Development Institute has said.
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12 Apr 18
UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
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12 Apr 18
Fragmentation in global financial regulation costs more than $780bn a year, a survey by the International Federation of Accountants has found.
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10 Apr 18
Foreign aid from official donors totalled $146.6bn in 2017, a decrease of 0.6% from 2016 in real terms, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has reported.
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10 Apr 18
The International Federation of Accountants has stressed the need for fragile states to strengthen their accountancy base as a means of defeating corruption.
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6 Apr 18
The European Union has announced €150m to support of Lebanon’s economy, which it hopes will generate €1.5bn in loans for the country until 2020.
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5 Apr 18
The UK is giving another £3m to countries in Africa and Asia to tackle the threat of landmines.
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5 Apr 18
Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
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4 Apr 18
China has published a list of various signature US imports the country plans to impose duties on, in response to Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs.
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4 Apr 18
Improving transparency to regain lost trust in governments around the world is key to tackling corruption, OECD division heads have told PF International.
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3 Apr 18
Attendees at an IPSASB roundtable in Brussels questioned the addition of accounting for natural resources as a priority for the standard setter’s work from 2019 to 2023.
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27 Mar 18
Countries must fight corruption and restore public trust to help meet the sustainable development goals, an OECD forum in Paris heard this morning.
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27 Mar 18
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
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21 Mar 18
The United States has banned any financial transactions involving Venezuela’s new Petro cryptocurrency.
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21 Mar 18
G20 countries should work together to boost sustainable growth and “avoid the temptation of inward-looking policies”, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has urged.
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21 Mar 18
Developing country debt payments have increased by 60% in three years, marking the highest level since 2004, figures have revealed.
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20 Mar 18
More than 110 countries and jurisdictions have agreed to come up with a plan on how to tax the digital economy by 2020, the OECD has said.
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19 Mar 18
The EU will give more than €31m in aid to assist Latin America and the Caribbean with humanitarian issues and ‘disaster preparedness’.
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19 Mar 18
Germany’s new finance minister has said protectionism is “not the answer” to trade and warned he is “seriously worried” about the trade stand-offs with the US.
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16 Mar 18
Our international reporter Simone Rensch finds out why green bonds are going from a marginal financing tool to becoming mainstream.
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15 Mar 18
A rise in protectionism and emerging trade wars could harm the global economic recovery, the OECD has warned.
19 Apr 18The digital revolution and rapidly changing nature of work are fuelling instability and status anxiety. Policymakers need restore trust in welfare states, says the OECD’s Stefano Scarpetta.
18 Apr 18Commonwealth countries are to increase efforts to stamp out human trafficking and child exploitation.
18 Apr 18The International Monetary Fund has warned governments around the world to take advantage of favourable economic conditions to build policies to protect economies against a downturn.
17 Apr 18The World Bank should stop funding and promoting public private partnerships until a review of their effectiveness has been done, an NGO umbrella group has called for today.
13 Apr 18Commonwealth member states must create 50,000 jobs every day to provide work for the growing number of young people seeking work, the Overseas Development Institute has said.
12 Apr 18UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
12 Apr 18Fragmentation in global financial regulation costs more than $780bn a year, a survey by the International Federation of Accountants has found.
10 Apr 18Foreign aid from official donors totalled $146.6bn in 2017, a decrease of 0.6% from 2016 in real terms, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has reported.
10 Apr 18The International Federation of Accountants has stressed the need for fragile states to strengthen their accountancy base as a means of defeating corruption.
6 Apr 18The European Union has announced €150m to support of Lebanon’s economy, which it hopes will generate €1.5bn in loans for the country until 2020.
5 Apr 18The UK is giving another £3m to countries in Africa and Asia to tackle the threat of landmines.
5 Apr 18Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
4 Apr 18China has published a list of various signature US imports the country plans to impose duties on, in response to Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs.
4 Apr 18Improving transparency to regain lost trust in governments around the world is key to tackling corruption, OECD division heads have told PF International.
3 Apr 18Attendees at an IPSASB roundtable in Brussels questioned the addition of accounting for natural resources as a priority for the standard setter’s work from 2019 to 2023.
27 Mar 18Countries must fight corruption and restore public trust to help meet the sustainable development goals, an OECD forum in Paris heard this morning.
27 Mar 18The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
21 Mar 18The United States has banned any financial transactions involving Venezuela’s new Petro cryptocurrency.
21 Mar 18G20 countries should work together to boost sustainable growth and “avoid the temptation of inward-looking policies”, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has urged.
21 Mar 18Developing country debt payments have increased by 60% in three years, marking the highest level since 2004, figures have revealed.
20 Mar 18More than 110 countries and jurisdictions have agreed to come up with a plan on how to tax the digital economy by 2020, the OECD has said.
19 Mar 18The EU will give more than €31m in aid to assist Latin America and the Caribbean with humanitarian issues and ‘disaster preparedness’.
19 Mar 18Germany’s new finance minister has said protectionism is “not the answer” to trade and warned he is “seriously worried” about the trade stand-offs with the US.
16 Mar 18Our international reporter Simone Rensch finds out why green bonds are going from a marginal financing tool to becoming mainstream.
