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27 Oct 15
Improved management of public finances is fundamental to international development and poverty reduction, the president of CIPFA has told an international accounting conference in Kuala Lumpur.
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23 Oct 15
As the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are adopted by world leaders, donor nations must consider how to increase the efficiency of aid spending. Improved auditing can be key to making improvements...
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23 Oct 15
The International Monetary Fund has found a strong link between the levels of the gender pay gap in a country and overall income inequality.
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22 Oct 15
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has added his voice to international calls for tax reform in the developing world.
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21 Oct 15
Public finance professionals face huge challenges worldwide. But there are also good reasons to be optimistic about aiming for ambitious goals
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21 Oct 15
The Sustainable Development Goals present a challenge to all nations. If they are to succeed policymakers need to start thinking and working in more collaborative ways.
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20 Oct 15
A group of central and local government leaders and companies from across the world have called for forthcoming talks on tackling climate change to back a global price for carbon.
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19 Oct 15
Interest is growing in developing international standards for financial reporting by not-for-profit bodies. The merits of an international not-for-profit reporting framework were examined at a recent...
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19 Oct 15
Governments should step up their investment in research and development, particularly cutting-edge technologies, as cuts threaten to destabilise science and research systems in many advanced...
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12 Oct 15
International finance ministers should work together to improve key services in developing countries, according to the head of the World Bank.
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12 Oct 15
Developing countries must continue raising more in domestic taxes while taking advantage of wider efforts to combat tax evasion by multinationals, the IMF/World Bank annual meetings were told.
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9 Oct 15
The World Bank is ready to help governments support refugees, including asking developed countries to take charge of capital market loans that displaced people might use to start businesses and...
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8 Oct 15
Large-scale migration from poor countries to richer regions across the world will “reshape economic development” for decades, a joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund report has...
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8 Oct 15
Rich countries invested $62bn in developing countries in 2014 in order to tackle climate change, up from $52bn the previous year, a report has found.
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7 Oct 15
The vast humanitarian crisis unfolding on the EU’s doorstep highlights the importance of scrutinising international aid spending much more closely
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7 Oct 15
Cities power the world economy. They have become the engines of growth. This once seemed the ultimate urban cliché. Now it has the ring of truth.
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7 Oct 15
Read the Autumn 2015 edition of PFI Magazine, featuring interviews with the World Bank’s Arumna Oteh and newly appointed IPSASB chair Ian Carruthers, plus a cover feature examining the finances of...
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6 Oct 15
Read the Autumn 2015 edition of PFI Magazine, featuring interviews with the World Bank’s Arunma Oteh and newly appointed IPSASB chair Ian Carruthers, plus a cover feature examining the finances of...
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6 Oct 15
Less than 10% of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty this year, the World Bank has said, but there is still “great concern” about the number concentrated in sub...
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5 Oct 15
There is a need for a framework for more consistent financial reporting for not-for-profit organisations working across the globe.
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5 Oct 15
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has overhauled the international rules governing the taxation of company profits. These revised rules are expected to be adopted by leaders...
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2 Oct 15
Governments and public sector leaders need to starting viewing digital security as an economic threat rather than a technical issue, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has...
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1 Oct 15
Arunma Oteh, new vice president and treasurer at the World Bank, talks exclusively to PFI about thinking big on global development goals, ending poverty and her ambitions for the job
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1 Oct 15
Global growth will be “disappointing and uneven” in 2015, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde warned as she urged governments worldwide to upgrade their fiscal policies....
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30 Sep 15
Ian Carruthers takes the helm at the Toronto-based IPSASB in the new year. He’s got big plans for raising public financial management standards worldwide