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1 Oct 15
African countries urgently need to expand the revenue they raise from taxes. How can this be done in a sustainable way, without reliance on depleting natural resources?
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1 Oct 15
Arunma Oteh, new vice president and treasurer at the World Bank, talks exclusively to PFI about thinking big on global development goals, ending poverty and her ambitions for the job
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1 Oct 15
Global growth will be “disappointing and uneven” in 2015, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde warned as she urged governments worldwide to upgrade their fiscal policies....
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1 Oct 15
Eight African countries are to share in a $428m funding investment to improve their energy, transport and water networks.
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30 Sep 15
Bolivia has received a $178.5m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve its road infrastructure and boost regional economic activity.
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29 Sep 15
Palestine has the capacity to put its public finances on a more sustainable footing, despite three years of continually weak economic growth, the World Bank has said.
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29 Sep 15
British international development secretary Justine Greening has announced that £16m of UK aid money will go to the World Bank Trust Fund for capacity building in the area of data collection...
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29 Sep 15
Global leaders have agreed that they will continue to work together to propel Africa to new levels of energy sufficiency, the African Development Bank has said.
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29 Sep 15
The US and China have struck a co-operation deal on development issues.
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28 Sep 15
The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual climate change financing to $6bn by 2020, president Takehiko Nakao has said.
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28 Sep 15
The United Nations’ 193 member states have signed off the next set of global development goals, which aim to end extreme poverty and hunger by 2030.
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28 Sep 15
Money spent by the European Union on programmes to eliminate torture and the death penalty throughout the world are not well targeted and have limited scope because funding is thinly spread, the...
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24 Sep 15
The UK has pledged a further £115m in emergency funding in response to the migration crisis in Europe, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
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22 Sep 15
Rachid Benmessaoud, a former World Bank country director for Pakistan, has been appointed by the bank to support Nigeria’s development priorities, including education and public spending.
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22 Sep 15
The new Sustainable Development Goals set out to end poverty, boost growth and tackle climate change across the globe over the next 15 years. It’s a massive a challenge that will require a new...
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22 Sep 15
OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria today told European leaders to step up the continent’s response to the refugee crisis in order to make sure countries emerge stronger economically, socially...
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21 Sep 15
The presidents of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have met to identify projects where it may be possible for the institutions to agree co-financing.
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16 Sep 15
The UK aid department has said Kenya should “put us out of a job as a development partner” once it reaches economic sustainability.
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14 Sep 15
Lebanon is to receive £29m of the extra £100m pledged in UK aid for Syria and surrounding countries announced by UK Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this month.
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14 Sep 15
Giving direct cash aid to those caught up in humanitarian crises would be the most effective and transparent form of assistance, a report from a high-level panel of experts has suggested.
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4 Sep 15
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has made a powerful plea to the international community to protect migrant and refugee children from what is being called one of the biggest...
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3 Sep 15
Water management is one of Brazil’s most important challenges as population and economic growth, coupled with climate change, are expected to increase demand for water, the Organisation for...
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2 Sep 15
The United Nations Development Programme’s chief has said that the new “strong and visionary” sustainable development goals (SDGs) will help lift a generation out of poverty once...
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2 Sep 15
Infrastructure spending in Asia needs to be better-targeted the International Monetary Fund chief warned, as she called for strengthened fiscal policies to boost the region’s growth and...
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2 Sep 15
Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years if the current economic trends continue, a critical United Nations report has warned.
1 Oct 15African countries urgently need to expand the revenue they raise from taxes. How can this be done in a sustainable way, without reliance on depleting natural resources?
1 Oct 15Arunma Oteh, new vice president and treasurer at the World Bank, talks exclusively to PFI about thinking big on global development goals, ending poverty and her ambitions for the job
1 Oct 15Global growth will be “disappointing and uneven” in 2015, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde warned as she urged governments worldwide to upgrade their fiscal policies....
1 Oct 15Eight African countries are to share in a $428m funding investment to improve their energy, transport and water networks.
30 Sep 15Bolivia has received a $178.5m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve its road infrastructure and boost regional economic activity.
29 Sep 15Palestine has the capacity to put its public finances on a more sustainable footing, despite three years of continually weak economic growth, the World Bank has said.
29 Sep 15British international development secretary Justine Greening has announced that £16m of UK aid money will go to the World Bank Trust Fund for capacity building in the area of data collection...
29 Sep 15Global leaders have agreed that they will continue to work together to propel Africa to new levels of energy sufficiency, the African Development Bank has said.
29 Sep 15The US and China have struck a co-operation deal on development issues.
28 Sep 15The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual climate change financing to $6bn by 2020, president Takehiko Nakao has said.
28 Sep 15The United Nations’ 193 member states have signed off the next set of global development goals, which aim to end extreme poverty and hunger by 2030.
28 Sep 15Money spent by the European Union on programmes to eliminate torture and the death penalty throughout the world are not well targeted and have limited scope because funding is thinly spread, the...
22 Sep 15Rachid Benmessaoud, a former World Bank country director for Pakistan, has been appointed by the bank to support Nigeria’s development priorities, including education and public spending.
16 Sep 15The UK aid department has said Kenya should “put us out of a job as a development partner” once it reaches economic sustainability.
14 Sep 15Lebanon is to receive £29m of the extra £100m pledged in UK aid for Syria and surrounding countries announced by UK Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this month.
14 Sep 15Giving direct cash aid to those caught up in humanitarian crises would be the most effective and transparent form of assistance, a report from a high-level panel of experts has suggested.
3 Sep 15Water management is one of Brazil’s most important challenges as population and economic growth, coupled with climate change, are expected to increase demand for water, the Organisation for...
2 Sep 15The United Nations Development Programme’s chief has said that the new “strong and visionary” sustainable development goals (SDGs) will help lift a generation out of poverty once...
2 Sep 15Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years if the current economic trends continue, a critical United Nations report has warned.
