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20 May 15
Sweden should implement an ‘ambitious’ programme of reform in its schools to improve both equity and quality, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has said.
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20 May 15
Growth in sub-Sahara Africa is expected to slow to 4.5% this year, due to the sharp decline in oil prices, the International Monetary Fund said, down on the 5% forecast a year ago.
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20 May 15
Malawi has met with international experts to devise a plan to accelerate the progress of digital finance in the country, its finance ministry has said.
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20 May 15
A €700m programme intended to boost agricultural development across the European Union has not achieved the planned results, according to auditors.
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20 May 15
Nigeria is set to receive a $500m credit from the World Bank to improve maternal, child and nutrition health services.
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20 May 15
European Union member states should issue annual timetables setting out how they plan to meet the goal of spending 0.7% of national income by 2020, the European Parliament’s development...
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20 May 15
A boost to productivity and investment in skills and human capital would lead to improved well-being and growth performance in the Asia Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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20 May 15
Just over four in ten workers in Latin America and the Caribbean are contributing to a retirement plan, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
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20 May 15
Three European Union member states – France, Germany and Portugal – have yet to adopt global audit standards, according to a survey by the Federation of European Accountants (FEE).
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19 May 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Latin America & Caribbean you might have missed.
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19 May 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East and Africa you might have missed.
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19 May 15
The head of the African Development Bank has responded swiftly to predictions that economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will slow this year, claiming that ‘Africa is still rising’.
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19 May 15
The Brazilian economy is expected to contract this year because of squeezed public spending and a cut in investment from state-owned oil company Petrobras, the International Monetary Fund said.
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19 May 15
The World Bank has trimmed its East Asia and Pacific growth forecast for 2015/16 to 6.7%, slightly down from the 6.9% projected last year.
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19 May 15
Global unemployment fell by 0.1 percentage points to 7% in February this year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s latest snapshot.
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19 May 15
The increase in groundwater extraction needs to be properly managed to ensure reserves are used sustainably, a group of international agencies has said.
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19 May 15
Current reforms in France are not enough to boost the labour market, curb high levels of public spending and tax, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.
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19 May 15
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has provided a €13m loan to the Serbian capital Belgrade to allow it to improve the water supply.
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19 May 15
Portugal has completed the demanding economic reforms required as part of its eurozone bailout and the country is beginning to see the benefits of the programme, the Organisation for Economic Co-...
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19 May 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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19 May 15
More taxes and better collection of them would allow Nigeria to collect the money to fund the social programmes it so badly needs. Judith Ugwumadu reports
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13 May 15
African countries preparing to move into extractive industries need to put appropriate tax arrangements in place quickly or risk missing out on the revenue potential, an international tax expert has...
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8 Apr 15
Aid spending by the world’s richest nations was stable last year, but assistance given to the least-developed countries fell by 16% compared to 2013, new data from the Organisations for...
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10 Mar 15
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu reports on...
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10 Mar 15
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu...
20 May 15Sweden should implement an ‘ambitious’ programme of reform in its schools to improve both equity and quality, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has said.
19 May 15A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Latin America & Caribbean you might have missed.
19 May 15A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East and Africa you might have missed.
19 May 15Current reforms in France are not enough to boost the labour market, curb high levels of public spending and tax, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.
19 May 15More taxes and better collection of them would allow Nigeria to collect the money to fund the social programmes it so badly needs. Judith Ugwumadu reports
13 May 15African countries preparing to move into extractive industries need to put appropriate tax arrangements in place quickly or risk missing out on the revenue potential, an international tax expert has...
8 Apr 15Aid spending by the world’s richest nations was stable last year, but assistance given to the least-developed countries fell by 16% compared to 2013, new data from the Organisations for...
10 Mar 15The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu reports on...
10 Mar 15The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu...
