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4 Jan 18
The UK Department for International Development has announced a new £21m package of support for humanitarian crises in 2018.
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2 Jan 18
The United Nations has approved a $5.4bn programme budget for the next two years, at the 2017 closing session of the General Assembly.
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18 Dec 17
The UK has pledged to provide an extra £50m to help stop the “human tragedy” in Yemen and feed millions in need.
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15 Dec 17
The World Bank will end all financial support for new oil and gas projects from 2019, it announced at a climate change summit in Paris on Tuesday.
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14 Dec 17
Thirty-six countries have pledged $383m to a United Nations emergency fund for crisis relief operations around the world.
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12 Dec 17
The UK will pledge a £140m fund to tackle the effects of climate change on poorer countries, at the One Planet Summit in Paris today.
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12 Dec 17
The European Union and Japan have formed an economic partnership, which is the world's biggest bilateral trade agreement.
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12 Dec 17
Finance ministers across Europe have called on the US to rethink its tax reform proposals, arguing they are discriminatory and could harm both the financial sector and international trade.
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11 Dec 17
Governments around the world should change their policies to expand housing investment and ensure wealth equality, a think-tank has said.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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6 Dec 17
The European Council has published its ‘blacklist’ of 17 countries classified as tax havens, which could lose access to funds from the bloc.
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5 Dec 17
Further reforms are needed to cope with ageing populations as global public spending on pensions has risen by about 1.5% of GDP since 2000, the OECD has said.
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4 Dec 17
The expansion of the middle-class changes the game for policymakers in emerging economies: ignore them at your peril, says Angel Melguizo of the OECD Development Centre.
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4 Dec 17
European governments are leading the ‘race to the bottom’ as tax rates globally are heading towards zero by 2052, a study has found.
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4 Dec 17
The UK has confirmed an additional £70m aid package to support the recovery and reconstruction of British islands hit by hurricanes.
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1 Dec 17
The UK has vowed to “stamp out” modern slavery through a £40m aid package, the international development secretary has announced today.
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29 Nov 17
A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
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28 Nov 17
Global economic performance is still weaker than a decade ago and “remains below the pre-crisis period and that of past recoveries”, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
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27 Nov 17
The Dutch government will not provide any aid to help Saint Martin recover from Hurricane Irma unless the prime minister steps down, the cabinet has said.
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24 Nov 17
Digitalisation in government finance is losing the “arms race” as it is years behind its private counterparts, according to a professor from the London School of Economics.
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24 Nov 17
Advocates of blended finance say it is key to making a success of the SDGs, but the evidence might tell a different story, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad
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21 Nov 17
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
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21 Nov 17
El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
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17 Nov 17
The UK government’s aid department must justify its spending to the public in the same way charities do, the new international development secretary has said.
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14 Nov 17
International local governments cope with economic shock in different ways, explains Ileana Steccolini, but to improve financial resilience they must learn lessons from one another.
4 Jan 18The UK Department for International Development has announced a new £21m package of support for humanitarian crises in 2018.
2 Jan 18The United Nations has approved a $5.4bn programme budget for the next two years, at the 2017 closing session of the General Assembly.
18 Dec 17The UK has pledged to provide an extra £50m to help stop the “human tragedy” in Yemen and feed millions in need.
15 Dec 17The World Bank will end all financial support for new oil and gas projects from 2019, it announced at a climate change summit in Paris on Tuesday.
14 Dec 17Thirty-six countries have pledged $383m to a United Nations emergency fund for crisis relief operations around the world.
12 Dec 17The UK will pledge a £140m fund to tackle the effects of climate change on poorer countries, at the One Planet Summit in Paris today.
12 Dec 17The European Union and Japan have formed an economic partnership, which is the world's biggest bilateral trade agreement.
12 Dec 17Finance ministers across Europe have called on the US to rethink its tax reform proposals, arguing they are discriminatory and could harm both the financial sector and international trade.
11 Dec 17Governments around the world should change their policies to expand housing investment and ensure wealth equality, a think-tank has said.
8 Dec 17The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
5 Dec 17Further reforms are needed to cope with ageing populations as global public spending on pensions has risen by about 1.5% of GDP since 2000, the OECD has said.
4 Dec 17The expansion of the middle-class changes the game for policymakers in emerging economies: ignore them at your peril, says Angel Melguizo of the OECD Development Centre.
4 Dec 17European governments are leading the ‘race to the bottom’ as tax rates globally are heading towards zero by 2052, a study has found.
4 Dec 17The UK has confirmed an additional £70m aid package to support the recovery and reconstruction of British islands hit by hurricanes.
1 Dec 17The UK has vowed to “stamp out” modern slavery through a £40m aid package, the international development secretary has announced today.
28 Nov 17Global economic performance is still weaker than a decade ago and “remains below the pre-crisis period and that of past recoveries”, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
24 Nov 17Digitalisation in government finance is losing the “arms race” as it is years behind its private counterparts, according to a professor from the London School of Economics.
24 Nov 17Advocates of blended finance say it is key to making a success of the SDGs, but the evidence might tell a different story, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad
21 Nov 17Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
21 Nov 17El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
17 Nov 17The UK government’s aid department must justify its spending to the public in the same way charities do, the new international development secretary has said.
14 Nov 17International local governments cope with economic shock in different ways, explains Ileana Steccolini, but to improve financial resilience they must learn lessons from one another.
