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8 Oct 18
Romania’s proposed changes to the judiciary could mean a dangerous backslide on its progress in tackling corruption, the European Commission’s vice president has warned.
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17 Sep 18
The European Commission has signed a €1bn agreement with Ukraine to support economic stabilisation and governance reforms in the country.
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7 Sep 18
Neema Kiure Mssusa, who is speaking at CIPFA’s conference later this month, discusses some of the highlights of her first eight months on the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board....
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10 May 18
Looting of public resources has left South Africa on the brink of becoming a failed state, according to the Treasury’s director general.
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17 Apr 18
The international community “can do more” to support Libya countering its ‘war economy’, a think-tank has said.
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27 Mar 18
Countries must fight corruption and restore public trust to help meet the sustainable development goals, an OECD forum in Paris heard this morning.
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22 Jan 18
The US government has shutdown as Democrats and Republicans were unable to agree on a spending bill on Friday.
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16 Mar 17
Dutch voters have roundly rejected creeping far-right politics in a general election widely considered to be a litmus test for the strength of resurgent nationalism in Europe.
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23 May 16
Sustainable urbanisation will be key to Africa’s economic success going forward, the OECD has said.
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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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12 Feb 16
The British Academy has announced eight projects it will fund as part of its £4m anti-corruption scheme in partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development.
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10 Feb 16
The International Monetary Fund has said it could withdraw its budget support to Ukraine unless the country’s leadership accelerates governance reforms and the fight against corruption.
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9 Feb 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has stressed that more inclusive governance is vital not only to reducing poverty and promoting prosperity, but also tackling problems like violent extremism and...
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3 Feb 16
India has gone ahead with structural reforms to its tax policy institutions with the formation of two new bodies it hopes will achieve a more coherent and independent approach to analysing new...
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21 Dec 15
The United States Congress has approved reforms to the International Monetary Fund’s governance that will give China and other emerging economies greater clout within the institution after...
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24 Nov 15
The European Commission has announced development programmes for Madagascar and Chad worth a combined €619m.
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18 Nov 15
Local government reforms in Kenya are to receive $23.5m in support from the UK government.
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20 Oct 15
External auditors need to start thinking about how they can develop internal audit systems and capacity in countries receiving aid, a member of the European Court of Auditors has told Public Finance...
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28 Apr 15
Data-driven delivery is the way forward for public services, US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley told a high-level conference in London this week.
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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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17 Feb 15
Getting the right balance between rigorous oversight of audit bodies and protection of their independence is a big challenge