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22 Dec 16
The world’s rapidly growing cities will need high quality financial management and new sources of revenue if they are invest in the high quality infrastructure needed to remain competitive, according...
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16 Dec 16
UK aid is falling short in its ambition to educate the poorest and most vulnerable girls, with programmes missing their original objectives and sometimes abandoning targets focused on girls...
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16 Dec 16
Cities in developing countries can access green finance regardless of their creditworthiness, legal ability to issue bonds or the size of the project they want to fund, according to Climate Policy...
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14 Dec 16
Greeks are unhappier with their lives than citizens in a host of post-communist and less developed nations across Europe and central Asia, according to a survey.
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14 Dec 16
One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
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14 Dec 16
The world’s 48 poorest countries have fallen further behind the rest of the world due to the recent collapse in commodity prices, which has caused growth in this group to slump to its weakest level...
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13 Dec 16
‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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13 Dec 16
A humanitarian impact bond being pioneered by the International Committee of the Red Cross could transform aid financing for conflict zones and help monitor results. Dominik Stillhart tells PF...
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12 Dec 16
The OECD has updated its anti-corruption standards for donor governments that are increasingly working with the private sector on aid and development.
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9 Dec 16
A UK think-tank is calling on the Bangladesh government to spend more on education and welfare after finding that young children from the country’s slums are working for over 60 hours per week,...
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6 Dec 16
The Sustainable Development Goals have ambitions to leave no one behind. How do we square that with the need to achieve value for money?
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2 Dec 16
The mayors of four major capital cities have committed to taking all diesel-powered vehicles off their streets by 2025.
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2 Dec 16
Money looted from Nigeria and seized by the UK should be used to save millions of people from starvation in the country’s north east, Save the Children has said.
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2 Dec 16
The UK’s aid agency has announced it is to “turbo charge” its focus on trade as part of a long-delayed review into its work overseas.
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1 Dec 16
Tax officials from Kenya are to help their counterparts in Botswana audit multinational firms as part of a tax assistance project under the Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) programme.
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1 Dec 16
Mayors from across the Americas, Asia and beyond have pledged to lead the charge on climate change, and said they won’t let US president-elect Donald Trump get in their way.
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30 Nov 16
British MPs have said moves to quadruple funding for the UK aid agency’s private sector arm open the door to the privatisation of the aid budget and could divert funding from the world’s poorest...
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30 Nov 16
Inequalities are rising in the Arab world and countries in the region need to address them, especially for the burgeoning youth population, to restore stability and development, the UNDP has said.
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29 Nov 16
The United Nations is concerned the Asia-Pacific region’s main driver of growth could weaken further as countries within the region and beyond seek to turn away from free trade.
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28 Nov 16
Demonstrating that the UK aid agency’s private sector arm makes a difference to the poorest people remains a “significant challenge”, the country’s National Audit Office has concluded.
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23 Nov 16
The UK’s aid department is under fire for “astounding” plans to channel billions of pounds more through its controversial private sector arm, which regularly routes funds through tax havens.
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22 Nov 16
‘Aggressive’ reforms in public sector management and governance are needed in Asia-Pacific to mitigate the negative consequences of falling tax-to-GDP ratios, an Asian Development Bank governance...
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22 Nov 16
European Union spending on climate change may fall short of target, with a lacklustre effort to channel funds towards climate action throwing spending off schedule, auditors have found.
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18 Nov 16
Strengthening the world’s health systems will require engaging a diverse array of stakeholders at different levels both within and outside the health system in new forms of participatory leadership,...
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18 Nov 16
A for-profit education provider that has been ordered to close its schools in Uganda has been given an award for its work from an alliance of businesses and universities and KPMG.