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18 Nov 15
Key donors have saved the World Food Programme from suspending its food assistance to those affected by drought in Ethiopia.
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18 Nov 15
The mission of humanitarian aid needs to be aligned with those of growth and development, the UK’s international development select committee heard yesterday.
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17 Nov 15
Leaders of the world’s major economies have agreed to co-operate to face down the global terrorist threat, including how it is financed.
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16 Nov 15
The OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) reforms do not go far enough in changing the international corporate tax system, G20 leaders have been told.
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16 Nov 15
Transparency International has accused all but one of the G20 governments of failing to keep their promises to fight corruption made at the Brisbane summit a year ago.
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16 Nov 15
G20 governments hand out $444bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies, marrying “bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate”, research has claimed
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13 Nov 15
Developing countries are in an “age of choice” when it comes to financing their national development strategies and the decisions they make will have impacts on debt sustainability,...
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12 Nov 15
Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown said now is a “golden time” to address the worldwide infrastructure gap, but stressed that the public sector cannot do the job alone.
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11 Nov 15
Public sector corruption is of mounting concern to citizens around the world. What can individuals and institutions to do address it?
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10 Nov 15
The adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) has a crucial role to play in supporting sustainable development, a United Nations workshop has concluded.
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9 Nov 15
Seven aid agencies have warned a ‘new deal’ is needed for Syria’s refugees living in neighbouring countries if the massive humanitarian crisis is going to be resolved.
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9 Nov 15
More than 100 million additional people could be pushed into poverty unless immediate action is taken on climate change, the World Bank has said.
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8 Nov 15
Ambitions will need to be revised up if the target of a global temperature rise no more than 2°C is to be met, the UN Environment Programme has warned.
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7 Nov 15
Policies that strengthen public finances and enable countries to run a fiscal surplus are critical to their ability to weather economic crises, the OECD has said.
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3 Nov 15
Countries that have seen large increases in high-skilled migration could be missing out on the benefits as workers’ capacities are underutilised, the OECD and France’s development agency have said.
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3 Nov 15
Ending corruption is critical to achieving sustainable development, the world’s largest anti-corruption forum heard yesterday.
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3 Nov 15
CIPFA has appointed Gillian Fawcett as head of its governments faculty to lead the institute’s work on global financial management.
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2 Nov 15
Anti-corruption campaign Transparency International has criticised the Open Government Partnership, saying its strategy is lacking and urged the 66-member group to stretch its ambitions.
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2 Nov 15
Countries planning to establish special disaster risk management funds to meet the costs incurred by earthquakes and floods should “pay attention to the lessons of the past”, an accounting professor...
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2 Nov 15
Further strides towards greater tax transparency around the world have been made with 13 countries signing up to the international framework enabling the automatic exchange of information.
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30 Oct 15
Representatives of landlocked and some of the least developing countries have urged for the greater Official Development Assistance and Foreign Direct Investment necessary for their economic progress...
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30 Oct 15
Current worldwide efforts to combat climate change are a big improvement towards preventing a global temperature rise of more than 2°C, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (...
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30 Oct 15
Uruguay has joined the OECD’s Development Centre in a move that will support inclusive growth within the country.
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29 Oct 15
The Open Government Partnership and the United Nations Development Programme must work together to build transparent and inclusive institutions around the world, UNDP administrator Helen Clark has...
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28 Oct 15
More effective regulation can act as a lever for economic growth, according to the OECD.