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17 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to lend $20m to a private healthcare company in Nigeria to help improve hospital and other specialist health facilities in Lagos State.
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17 Apr 18
The international community “can do more” to support Libya countering its ‘war economy’, a think-tank has said.
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17 Apr 18
James Muraguri is the chief executive officer at the Institute of Public Finance Kenya think-tank, which was founded in 2015, and a trained accountant. He tells PF International about working in...
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16 Apr 18
The World Bank is to invest $500m in education reforms in Egypt, expanding access to early years education and making greater use of technical innovations.
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12 Apr 18
Togo has met all the criteria for its extended credit facility from the International Monetary Fund despite economic activity having weakened in the second half of last year.
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11 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to prepare an aviation strategy to set out how the new Single African Air Transport Market can help to drive growth.
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10 Apr 18
The International Federation of Accountants has stressed the need for fragile states to strengthen their accountancy base as a means of defeating corruption.
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9 Apr 18
The Islamic Development Bank has launched a $500m innovation fund to fuel economic growth in developing nations.
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5 Apr 18
Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
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29 Mar 18
Agriculture must play a central part in boosting Somalia’s economy and alleviating poverty, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation have said.
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29 Mar 18
The Senegalese authorise must improve how they collect and distribute tax revenues, the IMF has said.
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23 Mar 18
The African Development Bank is to give a $30m loan to support the “innovation economy” in Rwanda and help unlock growth.
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22 Mar 18
The government of Zimbabwe has reaffirmed its commitment to implementing as accruals based accounting system to enhance transparency and accountability.
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16 Mar 18
South Sudan has appointed a new finance minister to deal with the economic struggles of the conflict-hit country.
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16 Mar 18
The International Monetary Fund has approved a three-year $157m arrangement to support Burkina Faso’s economic and financial reforms.
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12 Mar 18
Ghana should improve revenue collection and reduce spending cuts to achieve fiscal targets, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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8 Mar 18
Investing more in school meals in West Africa is a “win-win opportunity” for governments to create more local jobs in agriculture and improve the future of children, the United Nations has said.
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6 Mar 18
Independent regulators in Africa met last week to strengthen auditing and accounting regulations across the continent by formalising a common base and adopting international standards.
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1 Mar 18
The government of Ghana will give $2m in a move to make the national audit service paperless to “protect the public purse”.
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28 Feb 18
South Africa’s new president has unveiled significant changes to his cabinet, including the re-appointment of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister.
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26 Feb 18
South Africa’s ruling party has said it will look at ways to soften the impact of the new VAT rates on poorer people by adding more zero-rates and tax-free items.
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21 Feb 18
South Africa has increased its value added tax for the first time in 25 years, from 14% to 15% from 1 April, as part of efforts to cut the budget deficit.
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20 Feb 18
South Africa has launched an online budget data portal to make information more accessible ahead of the finance minister’s budget speech on Wednesday.
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16 Feb 18
South African’s ruling party leader Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in as the country’s new president after Jacob Zuma resigned amid pressure to step down.
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15 Feb 18
Gulf nations have pledged $30bn to Iraq at a conference this week, which was organised to discuss the reconstruct of the war-torn country’s economy.