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30 May 17
US president Donald Trump has steered away from commitments on limiting climate change reaffirmed over the weekend by other wealthy economies.
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25 May 17
The majority of countries are still chronically underprepared for disease pandemics, with a working group on the issue dubbing this short-sighted, bad economics.
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24 May 17
US president Donald Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the US’s overseas aid spending in his budget for the 2018 fiscal year.
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24 May 17
Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is to become director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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24 May 17
African nations are subsiding countries far richer than they, research by a group of development charities has found.
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23 May 17
Taking measures to tackle climate change will boost economic growth over the medium and long term, according to a OECD report.
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17 May 17
The US has significantly expanded its policy of refusing aid to organisations that provide abortion or offer advice and information on it. It will now affect $8.8bn worth of funding rather than $600m...
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16 May 17
Public services in some of the world’s poorest countries are being starved of resources as a result of their governments’ heavy debt loads, the Jubilee Debt Campaign has warned.
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16 May 17
The relationship between inequality is not uniform – it depends where in the world you look
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15 May 17
China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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12 May 17
UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.
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12 May 17
Public Finance International talks to Sunaina Roshan Shrestha, a CIPFA member working in Nepal, about qualifications and breaking into the public sector
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10 May 17
A growing trend towards earmarking public aid funds is burdening aid agencies with high administrative costs, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has said.
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8 May 17
A universal basic income can increase efficiency and accountability in the public finances of developing countries, experts have argued at a debate held at a UK-based think-tank.
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5 May 17
The unstoppable march of digitalisation will touch every area of government and business, accountancy included. Will accountants be able to adapt?
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28 Apr 17
OECD secretary-general Angel Gurría has warned that attempts to “fix” globalisation will fail if governments compete with one another in a “race to the bottom” in areas like standards and tax.
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27 Apr 17
Small, highly skilled teams lauded by governments globally as a way to deliver policy priorities are not inherently effective, the Institute for Government has cautioned.
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27 Apr 17
The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
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24 Apr 17
A group of International Monetary Fund member countries have dropped all references to resisting protectionism in an annual communiqué.
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21 Apr 17
The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
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21 Apr 17
US president Donald Trump’s plans to cut taxes could drive the country’s debt up by more than 11% of GDP by 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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20 Apr 17
Helen Clark has concluded her final term as head of the United Nations Development Programme, which she has led for the past eight years.
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19 Apr 17
All funding sources must be tapped in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations officials have stressed at a development finance conference.
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19 Apr 17
Development banks have become a critical component of the effort to build up poorer economies, but their ways of working are flawed. As a result, their contributions can do more harm than good
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18 Apr 17
Global growth prospects are “substantially better” for this year and the next, the International Monetary Fund has said.