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5 Mar 19
Providing infrastructure for the poor gives them opportunities for empowerment, says economist Fauziah Zen.
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5 Mar 19
India has secured a $926m loan for two lines on the Mumbai metro rail system to ease the commutes of millions of people and help tackle congestion in the city.
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28 Feb 19
Countries in central Asia should work together to minimise the impact natural disasters have on their budgets and finances, a forum has heard.
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28 Feb 19
The UK should set up a development bank to fund long-term projects after leaving the European Union to stay a leading aid actor, an MP has urged.
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28 Feb 19
Public sector accountants are becoming “enemies of the people” because they are failing to produce clear financial reports that the public can understand, Zambia’s president has warned.
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26 Feb 19
A new financing tool is helping people in Africa achieve their dreams of owning a home, explains Martin Spicer, director of blended finance at the International Finance Corporation.
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26 Feb 19
The “dangerous trend” of using private finance to pay for development could push governments further into debt, PF International has been told.
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25 Feb 19
The UK government is to provide an additional £200m of aid to Yemen, where millions of people are suffering in what has been called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”.
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22 Feb 19
Spending an average of 4.5% of GDP on ‘climate-friendly’ infrastructure could help developing countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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19 Feb 19
The UK government is to give a £47m package of support to developing countries to boost their tax systems.
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18 Feb 19
Saudi Arabia has promised investment deals worth $20bn with Pakistan to help boost its struggling economy.
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15 Feb 19
International donors should make education for Rohingya refugees a priority, leading NGOs said as the UN launched an appeal for hundreds of millions of pounds in aid of the crisis.
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13 Feb 19
Swiss NGOs face losing out on European Union aid funds – and UK organisations could be in the same boat – after Brussels indicated that only member states will be eligible.
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12 Feb 19
Treasury official David Malpass has been named as the US’ nomination to lead the World Bank and has vowed to boost the bank’s lending powers and focus on economic growth.
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12 Feb 19
Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
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11 Feb 19
Finland’s two-year experiment to give people an unconditional monthly income did not boost employment, researchers have said.
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8 Feb 19
Afghanistan is to receive $325m of World Bank funding to boost service delivery and municipal management.
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4 Feb 19
The UK government’s “inconsistent” spending of its aid budget is undermining efforts to tackle extreme poverty, a campaign group has warned.
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31 Jan 19
Australia will fall short of a 2030 target on greenhouse gas emissions without a major shift to clean energy, the OECD has warned.
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31 Jan 19
Multilateral banks need a “dramatic” overhaul of strategies to achieve global goals by 2030, warns the head of the Islamic Development Bank.
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25 Jan 19
Aid contributions must rise and be targeted to the places and sectors where they will really make a difference, says Development Initiatives’ Cecilia Caio.
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25 Jan 19
Low- and middle-income countries need to improve public financial management to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and get the most value for money, IMF chief Christine Lagarde has said.
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25 Jan 19
Countries have been called on to donate billions of dollars of funding to an international not-for-profit to help it fight infectious diseases across the globe.
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23 Jan 19
Japan will use its G20 chairmanship to rebuild trust in the global trade system, its prime minister Shinzo Abe has said.
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22 Jan 19
The World Bank will ramp up its climate financing to $50bn over the next five years, which will be more than double the grants and loans it has given annually since 2015.