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29 Jul 19
Tajikistan is taking steps to improve the way organisations in the financial sector are run in a bid to reduce their vulnerability to risk.
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23 Jul 19
Lebanese veterans have clashed with security forces in protest against potential cuts to their benefits in the coalition government’s budget.
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23 Jul 19
Population growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is slowing down and the number of people living in the region will hit a maximum in about 2058.
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5 Jul 19
A prominent Iraqi cleric has reportedly called for a “slow coup” to replace senior government officials for a failure to tackle growing corruption.
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7 Jun 19
“Fundamental weaknesses” in a £735m UK aid fund to help the poorest countries have left it neglecting its international development goals, a watchdog has claimed.
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7 Jun 19
Delhi’s government is pushing to make travel on city buses and the metro free for women in a bid to improve local women’s safety.
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28 May 19
Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated president of South Africa amid signs that the ruling party has been badly dented by corruption scandals.
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23 Apr 19
The landslide victory of a popular comedian in Ukraine’s presidential elections has created uncertainty about his ability to work with a hostile parliament.
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25 Mar 19
Citizens in developed countries are deeply unhappy with the public services and the social benefits they receive, believing they are inadequate and unfair.
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25 Mar 19
Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods amounts to 3.3% of global trade, the OECD has found.
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19 Mar 19
The African Development Bank’s Uyoyo Edosio explains how an ICT programme is helping young people in Kenya become more employable.
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13 Mar 19
US president Donald Trump has sent Congress a record $4.75 trillion budget plan, which calls for bigger military spending - but slashes funds for domestic programmes.
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1 Mar 19
The French ‘yellow vests’ protests have shaved 0.2 percentage points off the country’s economic growth since the end of last year, the country’s finance minister has said.
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19 Feb 19
New Zealand plans to update its laws to tax revenues earned by huge digital firms, in line with international efforts to make multinational tech companies pay fair taxes.
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12 Feb 19
More robust data is needed to better understand the relationship between public financial management reform and improved governance, says ODI’s Shakira Mustapha.
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11 Feb 19
Talks between Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress aimed at stopping another government shutdown have broken down without agreement.
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7 Feb 19
Adopting accounting standards similar to those used by private companies and based on accrual accounting could restore trust in governments, writes investment consultant Dag Detter.
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1 Feb 19
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s prospects of joining the European Union have improved, according to the IMF.
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31 Jan 19
Venezuela’s beleaguered government is to freeze the accounts of a self-proclaimed “interim president” and investigate his alleged role in violent disturbances.
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30 Jan 19
Saudi Arabia has suspended 126 local government workers from various municipalities on corruption charges, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs has said.
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7 Dec 18
France may bring forward planned tax cuts to quell unrest in the country - but this would have to go “hand-in-hand with a decrease in spending”, the finance minister has warned.
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16 Nov 18
Can Mexico’s new president fund his ‘peaceful social revolution’ by tackling corruption? Asks Gavin O’Toole.
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13 Nov 18
It’s time to provide clarity on legal definitions to improve Macedonia’s VAT system, says professor of economics Marjan Petreski.
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22 Oct 18
A far-right presidential frontrunner pledges to end soaring violence but the poor will shoulder the cost, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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17 Oct 18
Latin America’s sprawling cities were once synonymous with slums and violence. Now, under dynamic local leadership, they’re taking off as engines of growth, writes Gavin O’Toole.