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6 Mar 24
Targeting welfare payments to the most vulnerable and providing more funding for schools in deprived areas will reduce poverty and inequality across Hungary, the OECD has said.
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5 Mar 24
Adopting reforms to reduce Iraq’s reliance on oil revenue and improving financial management will be key to prevent debt rising, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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13 Feb 24
Cutting expensive fuel subsidies and efforts to reform its tax system show the Nigerian government is starting to tackle the economy's “deep-rooted” structural issues, the International Monetary Fund...
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5 Feb 24
Falling inflation could give central banks scope to cut interest rates this year, the OECD has said.
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22 Jan 24
Ghana will receive $600m (£470m) of concessional loan support from the International Monetary Fund after the nation reached a preliminary agreement to restructure billions of dollars of debt.
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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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9 Jan 24
Higher borrowing costs and slower economic growth will likely see the Hungarian government fail to reduce its debt this year under current plans, the nation’s fiscal council has warned.
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4 Jan 24
Reliefs to mitigate the cost-of-living crisis will only be implemented if they do not stoke inflation, prime minister Anthony Albanese has said.
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3 Jan 24
Higher military spending will require Israel to make around £6.5bn of cuts over the next two years to prevent a debt spike and maintain market confidence, the nation’s central bank chief has said.
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29 Nov 23
Political leaders must commit to reform to aid economic recovery, says official
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28 Nov 23
Pandemic costs ruling leads to €45bn in extra spending.
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28 Nov 23
Business as usual not an option, says World Bank.
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24 Nov 23
Court ruling forces rethink on official accounts.
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23 Nov 23
The European Commission has agreed to an advance payment of €5bn from Poland’s Covid-19 recovery plan, but future funding depends on rule-of-law reforms.
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3 Nov 23
PM chooses growth over debt.
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6 Oct 23
Costs associated with climate change could hit Irish public finances by at least €6bn a year from 2030 onwards, its fiscal advisory council has warned.
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3 Oct 23
The European Commission has agreed to more than double Spain’s recovery and resilience plan to increase investment in sustainability and renewable energy.
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11 Aug 23
Rising service demand and the cost of supporting asylum seekers could leave New York City with a cumulative budget deficit of almost $40bn by 2027, the state spending watchdog has said.
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8 Aug 23
The New Zealand government is set to intervene to share the costs of purchasing homes and fixing infrastructure damaged by a recent cyclone.
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1 Aug 23
The controversial removal of an expensive fuel subsidy has saved the Nigerian government more than 1trn naira that will fund new social spending including expanding education, president Bola Tinubu...
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28 Jul 23
Ratings agency acts after defence spending increase
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24 Jul 23
Post-election limbo is only the beginning
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14 Jul 23
Repeating broad-based energy subsidies would raise government spending, distort energy prices and fail to reduce use and should therefore be avoided, the European Union’s energy regulator has said.
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30 Jun 23
Ukraine is set to receive a $1.5bn concessional loan from the World Bank to fund reforms and support its continued response to the Russian invasion.
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26 Jun 23
Governments should raise taxes or cut spending in a bid to reduce the burden on monetary policy in the fight against inflation, a central bank body has argued.