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12 Apr 21
Undeserving private sector lenders could benefit from International Monetary Fund action aimed at helping poorer countries recover from Covid-19, a former deputy director of the fund has warned.
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1 Apr 21
Private creditors are making big profits from lending to developing countries during Covid-19. With poorer governments left with less to spend on tackling the pandemic, the need for debt cancellation...
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1 Apr 21
Sudan has moved a step closer to accessing debt relief and finance from international institutions after handing over $335m to the USA to compensate terrorist attack victims.
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31 Mar 21
The world’s 69 poorest countries will need to spend $450bn by 2025 to respond to Covid-19 and accelerate their income convergence with advanced economies, the IMF has said.
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30 Mar 21
Pakistan’s finance minister has been removed as part of prime minister Imran Khan’s drive to reduce inflation, according to the information minister.
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26 Mar 21
Borrowing by local and regional governments around the world is set to balloon by a third to $2.25trn this year – but credit ratings in developed countries are set to be unaffected, according to a...
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24 Mar 21
Africa will need to be able to manufacture its own vaccines to speed up its economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, a United Nations panel has been told.
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23 Mar 21
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unexpectedly fired the governor of Turkey’s central bank just three months into his term.
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22 Mar 21
Pakistan’s new micropayments system is set to speed up pay and pension payments for 2.7 million government employees, says Muhammed Afnan Alam.
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19 Mar 21
Lebanon’s only option for halting the country’s financial collapse is re-engaging with the International Monetary Fund, according to prime ministerial candidate Saad al-Hariri.
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15 Mar 21
Africa needs large-scale debt relief in order to meet the challenges of Covid-19 as millions of people face being pushed into extreme poverty, the African Development Bank has warned.
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8 Mar 21
Kenya’s credit rating has been downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's, despite the country having recently agreed a deal with the International Monetary Fund aimed at reducing its debt...
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4 Mar 21
Political influence over national development banks harms their financial performance and encourages them to take too many risks, researchers have found.
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2 Mar 21
The international community has pledged less than half of what the United Nations said it needs to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, according to the organisation’s secretary-general António...
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25 Feb 21
Ghana has become the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines from India as part of the Covax programme that aims to provide doses to developing countries.
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16 Feb 21
Companies seeking government contracts in Saudi Arabia will need to set up regional headquarters in the country by 2024, an official has said.
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16 Feb 21
Kenya is set to receive $2.4bn from the International Monetary Fund to enable its government to continue its economic response to the pandemic.
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12 Feb 21
The Rwandan economy has fallen into its first recession in more than 25 years, with the World Bank warning it risks years of gains in poverty reduction.
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8 Feb 21
Many public officials in South Africa abandoned procurement procedures amid the Covid-19 crisis, investigators have found while looking into corruption allegations.
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5 Feb 21
Covid-19 has led Ethiopia seeking relief on its large public debts as it tries to make fiscal space to deal with the crisis.
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4 Feb 21
A five-year programme aimed at building the capacity of Madagascar’s Court of Accounts has been unveiled in Antananarivo.
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26 Jan 21
More efficient energy policies could generate revenue worth around 1% of GDP for developing countries, the OECD has claimed.
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8 Jan 21
Honorary CIPFA member and former head of the NAO’s International Relations and Technical Cooperation programme David Goldsworthy writes in response to a recent article, setting out that Iran must...
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7 Jan 21
More than one million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive in South Africa in the coming weeks, with the country seeking to inoculate its healthcare workers as they fight against the virus.
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5 Jan 21
Poverty in Iran could almost treble during the pandemic, the World Bank has said in its latest report into the Middle Eastern country’s economy.
12 Apr 21Undeserving private sector lenders could benefit from International Monetary Fund action aimed at helping poorer countries recover from Covid-19, a former deputy director of the fund has warned.
1 Apr 21Private creditors are making big profits from lending to developing countries during Covid-19. With poorer governments left with less to spend on tackling the pandemic, the need for debt cancellation...
1 Apr 21Sudan has moved a step closer to accessing debt relief and finance from international institutions after handing over $335m to the USA to compensate terrorist attack victims.
31 Mar 21The world’s 69 poorest countries will need to spend $450bn by 2025 to respond to Covid-19 and accelerate their income convergence with advanced economies, the IMF has said.
30 Mar 21Pakistan’s finance minister has been removed as part of prime minister Imran Khan’s drive to reduce inflation, according to the information minister.
26 Mar 21Borrowing by local and regional governments around the world is set to balloon by a third to $2.25trn this year – but credit ratings in developed countries are set to be unaffected, according to a...
24 Mar 21Africa will need to be able to manufacture its own vaccines to speed up its economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, a United Nations panel has been told.
23 Mar 21President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unexpectedly fired the governor of Turkey’s central bank just three months into his term.
22 Mar 21Pakistan’s new micropayments system is set to speed up pay and pension payments for 2.7 million government employees, says Muhammed Afnan Alam.
19 Mar 21Lebanon’s only option for halting the country’s financial collapse is re-engaging with the International Monetary Fund, according to prime ministerial candidate Saad al-Hariri.
15 Mar 21Africa needs large-scale debt relief in order to meet the challenges of Covid-19 as millions of people face being pushed into extreme poverty, the African Development Bank has warned.
8 Mar 21Kenya’s credit rating has been downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's, despite the country having recently agreed a deal with the International Monetary Fund aimed at reducing its debt...
4 Mar 21Political influence over national development banks harms their financial performance and encourages them to take too many risks, researchers have found.
2 Mar 21The international community has pledged less than half of what the United Nations said it needs to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, according to the organisation’s secretary-general António...
16 Feb 21Companies seeking government contracts in Saudi Arabia will need to set up regional headquarters in the country by 2024, an official has said.
16 Feb 21Kenya is set to receive $2.4bn from the International Monetary Fund to enable its government to continue its economic response to the pandemic.
12 Feb 21The Rwandan economy has fallen into its first recession in more than 25 years, with the World Bank warning it risks years of gains in poverty reduction.
8 Feb 21Many public officials in South Africa abandoned procurement procedures amid the Covid-19 crisis, investigators have found while looking into corruption allegations.
5 Feb 21Covid-19 has led Ethiopia seeking relief on its large public debts as it tries to make fiscal space to deal with the crisis.
4 Feb 21A five-year programme aimed at building the capacity of Madagascar’s Court of Accounts has been unveiled in Antananarivo.
26 Jan 21More efficient energy policies could generate revenue worth around 1% of GDP for developing countries, the OECD has claimed.
8 Jan 21Honorary CIPFA member and former head of the NAO’s International Relations and Technical Cooperation programme David Goldsworthy writes in response to a recent article, setting out that Iran must...
7 Jan 21More than one million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive in South Africa in the coming weeks, with the country seeking to inoculate its healthcare workers as they fight against the virus.
5 Jan 21Poverty in Iran could almost treble during the pandemic, the World Bank has said in its latest report into the Middle Eastern country’s economy.
