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27 Feb 24
Low debt and a resilient economy have contributed to Sweden keeping its AAA credit rating from Moody’s, despite 2024 being tipped to see GDP decline for a second consecutive year.
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16 Jan 24
Ratings agency delivers its own ‘Blue Monday’ warning post-Covid recovery facing risks including war.
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6 Jan 23
US president Joe Biden has hit back at claims the world’s largest economy is set for a recession this year, saying it was instead headed towards a “new plateau” of steady (albeit lower) growth.
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5 May 22
US president Joe Biden has boasted he will make an unprecedented reduction to the government deficit and pay down the national debt for the first time since 2016, taking aim at his predecessor Donald...
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12 Apr 22
Ukraine’s finance minister has asked donors for immediate help to finance his government’s growing deficit caused by the Russian invasion.
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17 Jan 22
Turkey’s budget deficit reached a record high in December after a challenging month for the country’s currency was accompanied by rising prices.
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20 Sep 21
Public debt in Ireland has a “one-in-four risk” of becoming unsustainable if the government runs deficits as projected, the country’s budget watchdog has warned.
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14 Sep 21
Costa Rica’s fiscal consolidation efforts have been buoyed by an International Monetary Fund deal and rising revenues – but political tensions and gridlock in its congress risk pushing its progress...
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12 Feb 21
US president Joe Biden’s plan to raise the minimum wage in the US would lift nearly one million people out of poverty, but would also result in a large increase to the budget deficit, a government...
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11 Feb 21
The Philippines hopes to secure $23.7bn in financing from external sources in 2021, to bridge its budget deficit and provide funds for “priority projects”, the Department of Finance has said.
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6 Jan 21
Ireland’s strong tax receipts led to the government running a lower than expected deficit in 2020, despite the huge spending to fight the effects of Covid-19.
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29 Oct 20
Government debt is set to rise for the next five years in South Africa, but officials hope to keep public finances sustainable by slashing the deficit, the country’s finance minister said while...
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13 Oct 20
Auditors have urged France to cut spending on health insurance payments after projecting the social security system deficit will balloon by more than 20 times its size this year.
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14 Sep 20
The US has reached a record budget deficit of $3trn this year as the government fights the health and economic crises caused by Covid-19.
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24 Jun 20
Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
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28 Apr 20
Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
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18 Dec 19
Finnish economic growth is expected to slow in the next few years as public finances weaken, according to the government’s economists.
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14 May 19
Public service workers in Lebanon have launched a series of protests to denounce proposed government austerity measures.
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14 May 19
The US deficit is continuing to rise following President Donald Trump’s extensive tax cuts despite record federal revenues in April.
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6 Jun 17
Nigeria’s total public debt rose to $62.9bn at the end of March this year, as the country struggles to deliver its spending plans amid its first recession in a quarter of a century.
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30 Mar 17
Nigeria raised $500m via a eurobond issue yesterday, the proceeds of which will fund the country’s substantial infrastructure spending plans.
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24 Jan 17
Euro-area government debt fell to its lowest level since 2012 in the third quarter of 2016 according to figures released yesterday by the bloc’s statistic office.
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1 Jul 16
Syria’s civil war has set the country’s economic, social and human development back by decades, leaving “monumental” challenges ahead, the International Monetary Fund has concluded.
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17 May 16
Poland’s plan to lower the retirement age is a “step in the wrong direction” and the government should reconsider, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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5 May 16
The World Bank has recommended that Mongolia implement spending controls after its budget deficit in the first three months of 2016 reached two-thirds of the annual target.
27 Feb 24Low debt and a resilient economy have contributed to Sweden keeping its AAA credit rating from Moody’s, despite 2024 being tipped to see GDP decline for a second consecutive year.
16 Jan 24Ratings agency delivers its own ‘Blue Monday’ warning post-Covid recovery facing risks including war.
6 Jan 23US president Joe Biden has hit back at claims the world’s largest economy is set for a recession this year, saying it was instead headed towards a “new plateau” of steady (albeit lower) growth.
12 Apr 22Ukraine’s finance minister has asked donors for immediate help to finance his government’s growing deficit caused by the Russian invasion.
17 Jan 22Turkey’s budget deficit reached a record high in December after a challenging month for the country’s currency was accompanied by rising prices.
20 Sep 21Public debt in Ireland has a “one-in-four risk” of becoming unsustainable if the government runs deficits as projected, the country’s budget watchdog has warned.
14 Sep 21Costa Rica’s fiscal consolidation efforts have been buoyed by an International Monetary Fund deal and rising revenues – but political tensions and gridlock in its congress risk pushing its progress...
12 Feb 21US president Joe Biden’s plan to raise the minimum wage in the US would lift nearly one million people out of poverty, but would also result in a large increase to the budget deficit, a government...
11 Feb 21The Philippines hopes to secure $23.7bn in financing from external sources in 2021, to bridge its budget deficit and provide funds for “priority projects”, the Department of Finance has said.
29 Oct 20Government debt is set to rise for the next five years in South Africa, but officials hope to keep public finances sustainable by slashing the deficit, the country’s finance minister said while...
13 Oct 20Auditors have urged France to cut spending on health insurance payments after projecting the social security system deficit will balloon by more than 20 times its size this year.
14 Sep 20The US has reached a record budget deficit of $3trn this year as the government fights the health and economic crises caused by Covid-19.
24 Jun 20Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
28 Apr 20Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
18 Dec 19Finnish economic growth is expected to slow in the next few years as public finances weaken, according to the government’s economists.
14 May 19Public service workers in Lebanon have launched a series of protests to denounce proposed government austerity measures.
14 May 19The US deficit is continuing to rise following President Donald Trump’s extensive tax cuts despite record federal revenues in April.
6 Jun 17Nigeria’s total public debt rose to $62.9bn at the end of March this year, as the country struggles to deliver its spending plans amid its first recession in a quarter of a century.
24 Jan 17Euro-area government debt fell to its lowest level since 2012 in the third quarter of 2016 according to figures released yesterday by the bloc’s statistic office.
1 Jul 16Syria’s civil war has set the country’s economic, social and human development back by decades, leaving “monumental” challenges ahead, the International Monetary Fund has concluded.
17 May 16Poland’s plan to lower the retirement age is a “step in the wrong direction” and the government should reconsider, according to the International Monetary Fund.
5 May 16The World Bank has recommended that Mongolia implement spending controls after its budget deficit in the first three months of 2016 reached two-thirds of the annual target.
