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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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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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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
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
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.
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5 May 17
The World Bank is to resume aid payments directly into Malawi’s budget, becoming the second donor to end an aid freeze to the country following high-level corruption revelations in 2013.
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2 May 17
Mozambique is to benefit from $1.7bn in World Bank funds until 2021 under a new programme that will initially concentrate on tackling the consequences of the country’s hidden borrowing.
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27 Apr 17
The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
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26 Apr 17
Governments have raised almost $1.1bn for war-torn Yemen, where nearly two-thirds of the population – around 19 million people – are in need of aid.
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26 Apr 17
Thousands of refugees and migrants, including unaccompanied children, are being left stranded on Greek islands as a result of European Union policy, the bloc’s auditors have said.
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25 Apr 17
Asian Development Bank lending surpassed the $30bn mark for the first time in the bank’s 50-year history in 2016, its annual report has highlighted.
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25 Apr 17
The development impact of money channelled through UK Aid’s controversial private equity arm is still unclear, the country’s Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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25 Apr 17
The African Development Bank will need more funding soon, its president has warned at an event in Washington DC.
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21 Apr 17
The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
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20 Apr 17
Nigerian president Mohammadu Buhari has suspended two top officials implicated in a scandal over $43m in allegedly misdirected aid funds.
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19 Apr 17
All funding sources must be tapped in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations officials have stressed at a development finance conference.
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16 Apr 17
The UK has today announced £205m in aid to protect over 200 million people from treatable tropical diseases that receive little international attention.
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13 Apr 17
A fundamental rethink of development finance is needed to ensure the equality of opportunity that will prevent a descent into fragility, conflict and extremism, the head of the World Bank has said.
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12 Apr 17
Four major emerging economies have urged developed nations to boost their climate change aid to poorer countries, in line with commitments made under 2015’s landmark Paris agreement.
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11 Apr 17
Aid to the world’s poorest nations fell by almost 4% last year as western donors diverted funds to hosting refugees at home, the OECD has said.
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6 Apr 17
Campaigners have called for greater transparency in British aid spending as it is channelled through an increasingly broad range of government departments.