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7 Jun 17
More investment in infrastructure and good governance will be key to Cambodia’s continuing economic success, according to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director.
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7 Jun 17
Aid to education is stagnating, according to United Nations cultural agency Unesco, which has highlighted that funding allocated to the sector fell for the sixth year in a row in 2015.
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2 Jun 17
Leaders from around the world have roundly condemned US president Donald Trump’s decision to pull one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases out of a landmark global agreement to curb...
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1 Jun 17
Growing “peace inequality” is seeing violence, conflict and insecurity – and the human and economic costs of these – increasingly concentrated in a handful of countries.
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31 May 17
The Philippines is at a critical juncture in its urbanisation process, which has driven growth but could see this slow due to poor infrastructure and complicated regulations.
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26 May 17
A climate risk insurance instrument backed by a number of global institutions failed Malawi when the country most needed it, ActionAid has said.
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25 May 17
The majority of countries are still chronically underprepared for disease pandemics, with a working group on the issue dubbing this short-sighted, bad economics.
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24 May 17
US president Donald Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the US’s overseas aid spending in his budget for the 2018 fiscal year.
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24 May 17
Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is to become director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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24 May 17
African nations are subsiding countries far richer than they, research by a group of development charities has found.
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23 May 17
The African Development Bank’s group president has made an economic case for investment in action against malnutrition.
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19 May 17
More innovative approaches could be key to tackling the scourge of corruption in Nigeria, a report by Chatham House has concluded.
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17 May 17
The US has significantly expanded its policy of refusing aid to organisations that provide abortion or offer advice and information on it. It will now affect $8.8bn worth of funding rather than $600m...
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17 May 17
Jordan cut its combined public sector deficit by 3.3 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, the International Monetary Fund has found.
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17 May 17
How the small island territory of Puerto Rico found itself at the centre of the US’s biggest ever public bankruptcy process, and why this might not be enough to solve the island’s problems for good
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16 May 17
The relationship between inequality is not uniform – it depends where in the world you look
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15 May 17
China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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12 May 17
UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.
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10 May 17
The US has suspended $21m in aid to Kenya’s Ministry of Health due to concerns over “weak accounting procedures”.
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10 May 17
A growing trend towards earmarking public aid funds is burdening aid agencies with high administrative costs, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has said.
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9 May 17
Malaysia is on track to become a high-income nation by the end of the decade, according to a senior government official.
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9 May 17
The UK’s emphasis on serving its own interests through its aid spending takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to a British economics think-tank.
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8 May 17
A universal basic income can increase efficiency and accountability in the public finances of developing countries, experts have argued at a debate held at a UK-based think-tank.
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8 May 17
Ten of Europe’s major economies hand out €6.3bn ($6.9bn) in coal subsidies every year, including €1bn ($1.1bn) in funds intended for low-carbon sources, according to a UK think-tank.
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8 May 17
More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.