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10 Feb 17
Euro-area unemployment fell at a quicker pace than across other advanced economies in 2016, data from the OECD showed yesterday.
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8 Feb 17
The portion of global investment flowing through tax havens has risen by $700bn in two years, according to an analysis by ActionAid.
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6 Feb 17
As UK aid becomes focused on outcomes, a scheme that allows recipients to use funding as they see fit is being ended to ensure money is not misused. Could it also stifle innovation?
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6 Feb 17
The US congress has voted to repeal a provision ensuring transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries – a move that could potentially foster corruption in developing nations.
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3 Feb 17
Economic policy uncertainties could hamper an expected upturn in declining global investment, the United Nations has warned.
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2 Feb 17
International accounting requirements addressing how to account for the combination of entities or operations in the public sector have been developed for the first time.
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31 Jan 17
Better governance is the key to unlocking progress in security, growth and equity, the World Bank has concluded.
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31 Jan 17
During 2016’s political upheavals, IPSASB stayed on course, working with standard setters around the world and on its own governance
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30 Jan 17
The UK’s development agency should be scrapped because of “out of control” spending, according to a former minister of state at the department.
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27 Jan 17
The UK should not reconsider its commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, the country's former prime minister Gordon Brown told a committee yesterday.
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25 Jan 17
Over a third of people in the world’s poorest countries could remain in extreme poverty by 2030 if growth in those economies stays on its current trajectory, the United Nations has warned.
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25 Jan 17
Growing levels of public sector corruption around the world have fuelled the rise of populist politicians, Transparency International said as it released its 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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24 Jan 17
US president Donald Trump has blocked US aid to foreign organisations that promote or perform abortions overseas, continuing a rapid-fire first week in office that has also seen him pull America out...
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24 Jan 17
Supreme Audit Institutions have to earn the rights to hold others to account by being visibly accountable themselves
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23 Jan 17
The United Nations’ environment agency has struck a deal with a Chinese financial technology company with the aim of stimulating technology innovation in the field of green finance.
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19 Jan 17
An initiative to use ‘blue’ bonds to support marine conservation and climate change initiatives in small island nations has won a design grant from a blended finance platform.
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19 Jan 17
A coalition of governments, businesses and philanthropists has pledged $460m to create vaccines to halt diseases before they can spread.
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17 Jan 17
National statistical offices must be strengthened in order to meet the data challenge presented by the Sustainable Development Goals, a top United Nations official has told a forum of data experts.
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16 Jan 17
Previous predictions of higher global growth over the next two years are likely to be realised, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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16 Jan 17
Power needs to be shifted out of the hands of drug manufacturers in order to ease pressure on public health spending caused by a proliferation of high-cost medicines, the OECD has said.
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16 Jan 17
Just eight men hold the same wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, Oxfam has found in a report that aims to put rising global inequality into perspective.
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16 Jan 17
New investment in clean energy fell by 18% across the world last year in dollar terms, according to research published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance last week.
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13 Jan 17
Social discontent could rise as unemployment and inequality increase in the next few years, the International Labour Organisation has warned.
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12 Jan 17
Guidance to help developing countries combat tax avoidance achieved through the misuse of transfer pricing mechanisms has been published by the World Bank.
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11 Jan 17
Failing to crack down on the tobacco industry will cost the world more than $1tn annually, the World Health Organisation has said, countering industry claims that more controls will hurt nations’...