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6 Oct 17
Developing countries need to adapt national and international policies to cope with the rising wages in their nations, OECD members have said.
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4 Oct 17
Côte d’Ivoire’s fiscal deficit is expected to decrease to 3.75% of GDP next year as its economic performance remains strong, despite the falling cacao prices, according to the IMF.
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4 Oct 17
Advanced economies are not doing enough to close gender gaps, despite increased focus on getting more women into public and private sector leadership, the OECD has said.
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4 Oct 17
Albania needs to collect more taxes and strengthen its public investment management, despite the economy’s continued recovery, the IMF has said.
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3 Oct 17
Since responsibility for spending aid was taken from DfID and divided between numerous departments and funds, there is uncertainty over monitoring and even if it is being spent at all. Russell...
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2 Oct 17
The Asian Development Bank plans to up its annual lending to India to $4bn in an effort to accelerate the country’s economic transformation towards upper middle-income status.
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2 Oct 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved financing of up to $900m to upgrade Sri Lanka’s road network, as well as a $50m loan to fund solar power generation systems.
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28 Sep 17
Citizen participation has become a political football in Brazil, as austerity turns back its progress. Gavin O'Toole reports.
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25 Sep 17
The world is running out of antibiotics and research funding is needed to combat the threat of antibiotic resistant diseases, such as tuberculosis, a new report by the World Health Organisation has...
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25 Sep 17
Since the New Zealand government blazed a trail by shifting to accruals accounting in 1992, it has been taking off in the public sector across the world.
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22 Sep 17
The Swiss National Bank and the National Bank of Belgium have both agreed to lend millions of dollars to support low-income countries, in partnership with the International Monetary Fund.
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22 Sep 17
The United Nations has called for further investments and economic policy changes to tackle global hunger affecting millions around the world.
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22 Sep 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved two loans, totalling $1.1bn, to strengthen Indonesia’s energy sector and promote growth and development.
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20 Sep 17
The Bangladesh government and the Asian Development Bank signed a $200m loan agreement yesterday, to strengthen urban infrastructure, service delivery, and management in Bangladesh’s...
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19 Sep 17
The United Nations Population Fund is seeking $13m to provide reproductive health care and prevention against gender-based violence to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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19 Sep 17
A global initiative to achieve “equal pay for equal work” and increase women’s pay across the world was launched at the UN General Assembly yesterday.
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18 Sep 17
A €120m financial scheme for wireless internet access in public spaces across the EU will be launched, the European Parliament has announced.
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18 Sep 17
India has started building its new bullet train line, largely funded by a 0.1% interest loan from Japan.
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18 Sep 17
Further public and private funding in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania are needed to ensure drinking water is brought up to EU standards, a report by the European Court of Auditors has found.
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18 Sep 17
Millions of US dollars of aid money for the education of Syrian refugee children did not reach them, arrived late, or could not be traced, Human Rights Watch has said.
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15 Sep 17
The United Nations has called for governments around the world to end austerity to rebalance global economy and “put people before profits”.
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14 Sep 17
Africa is receiving a declining share of the global official development assistance, advocacy and campaign organisation ONE says.
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14 Sep 17
The world’s six largest multilateral development banks increased their climate financing in developing countries to $27.4bn in 2016, up from $25bn the year before.
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13 Sep 17
The European Commission has announced it is sending €3m in humanitarian aid to Bangladesh and Myanmar to help Rohingya refugees.
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13 Sep 17
The International Committee of the Red Cross has set up the world’s first humanitarian impact bond, worth more than 26m Swiss francs (£20m), for rehabilitation centres in Africa.