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24 Mar 22
The president of El Salvador has insisted his government will issue a planned bitcoin-backed bond, initially set for last week, after a “short delay”.
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16 Mar 22
Hidden risks threaten public sector balance sheets because of policies introduced in response to the pandemic and its economic impact, a World Bank report has warned.
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4 Mar 22
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine continues to have stark economic and financial consequences that are being felt around the world.
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2 Mar 22
A Court of Justice Decision to allow the European Union to withhold money from countries that fail to meet democratic standards has been named as a threat to Hungary and Poland.
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22 Feb 22
Governance structures are key to the success of commercial ventures set up by local governments around the world.
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17 Feb 22
A Polish and Hungarian legal challenge against the European Union has failed, allowing the bloc to withhold billions of euros of funding if member countries fail to meet democratic standards.
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7 Feb 22
Poland has started to row back on some of its actions that have angered the European Commission and held up billions of euros of Covid-19 recovery funds.
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4 Feb 22
The re-election of Sergio Mattarella as Italian president has been tipped by a ratings agency to help keep the country stable and increase the chances of unlocking EU Covid-19 recovery funding.
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3 Feb 22
El Salvador has rejected calls by the IMF to halt plans to use Bitcoin as legal tender.
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25 Jan 22
Lebanon’s elite have caused “long-lasting scars” on the country’s economy by causing a protracted political and economic crisis, according to a highly critical World Bank report.
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20 Dec 21
The International Monetary Fund office in Brazil will close next year after the country’s finance minister criticised the fund for making “wrong predictions” about the economy.
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20 Dec 21
Poor public finance management systems hinder growth in African countries and risk causing governments electoral troubles – or even violent unrest – in the near future, an academic has warned.
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13 Dec 21
Poland’s justice minister has said the government could halt contributions to the European Union budget if officials in Brussels cut funding for Warsaw amid a battle over the rule of law.
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30 Nov 21
The Australian government brought forward next year’s budget by two months in a move suggesting it will call an election in May, right at the end of its term limit.
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22 Oct 21
Poland risks missing out on funding from the European Union after a court ruled national law takes precedence over those made in Brussels.
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18 Oct 21
Poland’s constitutional court ruling that Polish law takes precedence over EU laws has “meaningful risks to growth and governance” in the eastern European country, according to rating agency Fitch.
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12 Oct 21
Kristalina Georgieva has the “full confidence” of the International Monetary Fund’s executive board despite an investigation alleging she worked to artificially improve influential data in China’s...
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1 Oct 21
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after corruption investigators announced they were looking into whether she had acted dishonestly regarding public grant funding.
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30 Sep 21
Governance and transparency reforms in the Republic of Congo would allow the government access to “much-needed financing”, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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28 Sep 21
A data scandal involving International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva threatens the credibility of the Bretton Woods system, according to US senators.
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22 Sep 21
Rapid growth in green bond values could represent a boom similar to the dotcom and sub-prime mortgage bubbles that burst in recent years, according to a global central banking institution.
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14 Sep 21
Transparency rules, digitalisation and a code of conduct for officials sit at the heart of measures to strengthen government procurement processes, writes Ljupco Nikolovski, deputy prime minister of...
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2 Sep 21
The US government lost more than $90bn of its emergency pandemic aid to fraud and error, a watchdog’s report has found.
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1 Sep 21
El Salvador’s legislative assembly has voted to create a $150m trust to help smooth the introduction of Bitcoin as an official currency next week.
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31 Aug 21
Solutions to fixing public procurement already exist – the challenge lies in the political will of governments to implement them.
24 Mar 22The president of El Salvador has insisted his government will issue a planned bitcoin-backed bond, initially set for last week, after a “short delay”.
16 Mar 22Hidden risks threaten public sector balance sheets because of policies introduced in response to the pandemic and its economic impact, a World Bank report has warned.
4 Mar 22Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine continues to have stark economic and financial consequences that are being felt around the world.
2 Mar 22A Court of Justice Decision to allow the European Union to withhold money from countries that fail to meet democratic standards has been named as a threat to Hungary and Poland.
22 Feb 22Governance structures are key to the success of commercial ventures set up by local governments around the world.
17 Feb 22A Polish and Hungarian legal challenge against the European Union has failed, allowing the bloc to withhold billions of euros of funding if member countries fail to meet democratic standards.
7 Feb 22Poland has started to row back on some of its actions that have angered the European Commission and held up billions of euros of Covid-19 recovery funds.
4 Feb 22The re-election of Sergio Mattarella as Italian president has been tipped by a ratings agency to help keep the country stable and increase the chances of unlocking EU Covid-19 recovery funding.
25 Jan 22Lebanon’s elite have caused “long-lasting scars” on the country’s economy by causing a protracted political and economic crisis, according to a highly critical World Bank report.
20 Dec 21The International Monetary Fund office in Brazil will close next year after the country’s finance minister criticised the fund for making “wrong predictions” about the economy.
20 Dec 21Poor public finance management systems hinder growth in African countries and risk causing governments electoral troubles – or even violent unrest – in the near future, an academic has warned.
30 Nov 21The Australian government brought forward next year’s budget by two months in a move suggesting it will call an election in May, right at the end of its term limit.
12 Oct 21Kristalina Georgieva has the “full confidence” of the International Monetary Fund’s executive board despite an investigation alleging she worked to artificially improve influential data in China’s...
30 Sep 21Governance and transparency reforms in the Republic of Congo would allow the government access to “much-needed financing”, according to the International Monetary Fund.
22 Sep 21Rapid growth in green bond values could represent a boom similar to the dotcom and sub-prime mortgage bubbles that burst in recent years, according to a global central banking institution.
14 Sep 21Transparency rules, digitalisation and a code of conduct for officials sit at the heart of measures to strengthen government procurement processes, writes Ljupco Nikolovski, deputy prime minister of...
2 Sep 21The US government lost more than $90bn of its emergency pandemic aid to fraud and error, a watchdog’s report has found.
1 Sep 21El Salvador’s legislative assembly has voted to create a $150m trust to help smooth the introduction of Bitcoin as an official currency next week.
31 Aug 21Solutions to fixing public procurement already exist – the challenge lies in the political will of governments to implement them.
