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19 Sep 17
New methodologies are needed to quantify and analyse the problem of corruption across the world, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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15 Sep 17
The United Nations has called for governments around the world to end austerity to rebalance global economy and “put people before profits”.
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14 Sep 17
The world’s six largest multilateral development banks increased their climate financing in developing countries to $27.4bn in 2016, up from $25bn the year before.
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12 Sep 17
A £1.5bn cross-government fund helping developing countries respond to crisis through research and science needs to be more focused, an aid watchdog has said.
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12 Sep 17
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development unemployment rate remained unchanged for the second consecutive month at 5.8% in July.
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6 Sep 17
Denmark ranks top of the 27 richest countries committed to helping developing nations, followed by Sweden and Finland, according to a think-tank’s latest annual development index.
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5 Sep 17
The International Monetary Fund’s Independent Evaluation Office has called for more consistency in the way the fund approaches issues that spread across several countries.
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22 Aug 17
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched a commission to examine the future of work.
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18 Aug 17
More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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8 Aug 17
International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.
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8 Aug 17
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
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7 Aug 17
The International Monetary Fund's executive board has reviewed its standards and codes initiative.
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4 Aug 17
The International Monetary Fund will seek a more systematic engagement with member states on governance and corruption, but has rejected the idea of ranking them based on their degree of corruption.
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31 Jul 17
Martin Mühleisen has been appointed director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) strategy, policy, and review department.
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28 Jul 17
Three energy efficient kindergartens have been opened in Kazakhstan backed by an aid fund provided by Switzerland and administered by the World Bank.
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25 Jul 17
Thomas Müller-Marqués Berger has been elected chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board’s (IPSASB) Consultative Advisory Group (CAG).
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24 Jul 17
The proportion of the world’s population covered by anti-tobacco smoking measures has quadrupled in the past decade, the World Health Organisation has said.
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24 Jul 17
Global output is projected to grow by 3.5% in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018, the International Monetary Fund has said in its latest World Economic Outlook Update.
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18 Jul 17
Household goods manufacturer RB has rebutted claims by Oxfam that it set up an international structure to avoid tax in developing countries.
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18 Jul 17
Progress on many of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) is too slow to meet the 2030 implementation target, a report for UN secretary general António Guterres has warned.
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18 Jul 17
The UK government needs to ensure all departments are supported to spend Office Development Assistance responsibly and effectively, national auditors said today.
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17 Jul 17
The International Federation of Accountants has joined with CIPFA to launch an accountability index to encourage public financial management reform around the world.
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14 Jul 17
Government spending has risen across OECD countries since the global financial crash, according to the institute’s latest snapshot survey of public expenditure
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11 Jul 17
The latest G20 summit in Hamburg achieved very little and left anti-poverty campaigners feeling frustrated
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10 Jul 17
The leaders of the world’s richest nations have reaffirmed their commitment to inclusive growth and efficient use of public resources.