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14 Jul 15
The multilateral development banks and the International Monetary Fund plan to extend more than $400bn in financing over the next three years in order to meet the new Sustainable Development Goals (...
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30 Jun 15
The European Commission has unveiled a €13.1bn plan to invest in 276 transport projects, in a bid to boost the region’s economy and create more favourable conditions for growth and jobs.
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29 Jun 15
South Africa’s chronic power outages are threatening the country’s productivity, economic performance and competitiveness
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12 Jun 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East & Africa you might have missed.
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2 Jun 15
Growth projections for Russia this year and next year is significantly more optimistic than what was predicted two months ago, thanks to climbing oil prices, World Bank data has shown.
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27 May 15
African countries have been urged to mobilise the ‘untapped potential’ of their regions to help ensure growth is shared more equitably.
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19 May 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Latin America & Caribbean you might have missed.
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19 May 15
The World Bank has trimmed its East Asia and Pacific growth forecast for 2015/16 to 6.7%, slightly down from the 6.9% projected last year.
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19 May 15
The government of Tunisia must become more transparent if it is to complete its economic transformation following the Arab Spring, a senior International Monetary Fund figure has said.
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1 Apr 15
The government of Tunisia must become more transparent if it is to complete its economic transformation following the Arab Spring, a senior International Monetary Fund figure has said.
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4 Nov 14
The IMF, bastion of ‘tough love’ austerity, has shifted gear on public infrastructure spending. PF reports from Washington on the thinking behind the new growth strategy
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7 Oct 14
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has trimmed its global growth forecast for this year to 3.3%, down 0.1% on its July prediction.
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27 May 14
From the US to China, conurbations have become the new powerhouses of the economy, driving global growth. But what of the UK, where London dominates the rest – and ‘second-tier’...