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16 Mar 17
Chief economist and co-head of sovereign ratings at credit ratings agency DBRS, Fergus McCormick, summarises the rating processes, and how accrual information can help.
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16 Mar 17
Fayez Choudhury, CEO of the International Federation of Accountants, talks about why strong public financial management matters and the barriers to achieving it from an accountancy perspective.
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14 Mar 17
Poorer countries spent more on debt repayments in 2016 than at any time in the last decade, according to figures published by Jubilee Debt Campaign UK.
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14 Mar 17
Deputy director of the IMF's Statistics Department Gabriel Quiros explains how and why the IMF is collaborating with IPSASB on accounting standards and the challenges faced in helping countries...
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14 Mar 17
Deputy director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department Chris Towe discusses the role of accrual accounting in fiscal reports and managing the public finances, as well as the value of a seminar such...
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13 Mar 17
Juan Pablo Guerrero, network director of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, stresses that the public do care about access to high quality fiscal information, and explains what governments...
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13 Mar 17
IPSASB chair Ian Carruthers discusses the purpose of Transparency and Beyond – a seminar on the next steps for accrual accounting organised by IPSASB, the World Bank and the IMF and held at the fund'...
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13 Mar 17
Strengthening the notion of civil service as a vocation in developing countries is critical to building the institutions needed for sound economic governance, an International Monetary Fund official...
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13 Mar 17
The supposed benefits of switching to accrual accounting are backed up by evidence, Andreas Bergmann, former IPSASB chair and professor at Switzerland’s Zhaw School of Management and Law has...
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10 Mar 17
Policymakers everywhere will face the forces that have helped fuel global inequality, discontent and events like Brexit, the International Monetary Fund chief has predicted.
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10 Mar 17
Switching to accrual accounting can secure better credit ratings for governments, Fergus McCormick, chief economist and co-head of sovereign ratings at agency DBRS has said.
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10 Mar 17
The international community should do more to drive the global adoption of accrual accounting, Jim Brumby, a director of the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice, has said.
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10 Mar 17
UK-funded aid projects to address irregular migration through the central Mediterranean are not yet effective, the country’s aid watchdog has warned.
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9 Mar 17
Stakeholders are still not using governments’ accrual-based financial information in a meaningful way, a senior policy analyst from the OECD has warned.
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7 Mar 17
Developing nations are now among the leaders in implementing sustainable energy practices, but there is much room for improvement, according to a global policy scorecard launched by the World Bank.
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7 Mar 17
Public sector finance chiefs from across the globe have met at a major conference in Washington DC to develop a plan to maintain progress in the adoption of accruals accounting worldwide.
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7 Mar 17
Rising protectionism presents a risk to an expected uptick in global growth, the OECD has warned.
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3 Mar 17
Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
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2 Mar 17
A common but flexible international framework for monitoring South–South cooperation would greatly enhance accountability in this emerging area of aid
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2 Mar 17
Accusations of misconduct have prompted the entire top management of private sector aid firm Adam Smith International (ASI) to resign.
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28 Feb 17
Canada has agreed a deal with the International Monetary Fund to provide up to $677.5m to support the fund’s lending programme for low-income countries.
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23 Feb 17
New Zealand has recently started looking into the thorny issue of how to measure and improve productivity in the public sector
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22 Feb 17
Global trade growth slowed for the fifth year in a row last year, posting the weakest performance since the financial crisis, the World Bank has said.
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15 Feb 17
Authorities regulating the financial sector lack transparency, creating mistrust and hampering the effectiveness of systems designed to prevent financial crime, Transparency International has found.
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14 Feb 17
Overfishing is costing the global economy more than $80bn per year in lost revenues, the World Bank has found.