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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.
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10 Nov 17
A business school and philanthropic organisation are teaming up to find ways of identifying the risk of governments becoming unwilling or unable to meet loan obligations.
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10 Nov 17
The international standard for cash basis accounting has been revised to make the transition to accruals more “achievable”, the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has...
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9 Nov 17
Penny Mordaunt will join the UK cabinet as the new secretary of state for international development, following the resignation of Priti Patel.
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9 Nov 17
Accountants from across the globe consider grant misspending to be the top public sector fraud risk, according to research co-released by CIPFA today.
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8 Nov 17
The UK government should take action to increase transparency and tackle tax dodging, which is costing the world’s poorest regions $170bn every year, Oxfam has said.
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7 Nov 17
An international accounting standard has finally been released for consultation after 15 years but - in a first - an alternative view has been included.
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6 Nov 17
The UK should double its aid spending on research and development to ensure post-Brexit Britain becomes a world technology leader, a think-tank has said.
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6 Nov 17
World leaders have come under pressure to address tax avoidance as leaked documents revealed global official figures and businesses have invested their wealth offshore.
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2 Nov 17
Crisis-hit states will no longer be denied overseas development aid because they are too wealthy following a change to international rules approved by the OECD’s Development Assistance...
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23 Oct 17
The announcement of funding for the UK’s development finance institution last week should have come with a commitment to transparency about how overseas development money is spent, argues...
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23 Oct 17
The European Commission has announced a €106m humanitarian aid package for Sudan as civil unrest continues in the country.