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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...
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29 Jan 15
British MPs have raised questions about the integrity of investments made by the Private Infrastructure Development Group, an agency that receives a large amount of funding from the UK Department for...
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1 Jul 14
The high-level United Nations forum has set out plans to help governments across the world prepare the future global development agenda ahead of the replacement of the existing Millennium Development...
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12 Jun 14
Georgia is facing a major challenge of how to generate growth and create jobs within a sustainable fiscal framework, a World Bank public expenditure report has warned.
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27 May 14
The value for money agenda that drives the outsourcing of public services is also changing the way development money is spent globally. Could results-based financing be the future of aid?
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3 Apr 14
International donors have given Myanmar $55m to support the modernisation of its public financial management system and ensure spending is targeted on the right sector.
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18 Feb 14
Local government finance in the Philippines is to be reviewed and reformed in order to boost the amount of revenue raised through municipal agencies
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3 Jan 14
Two government departments in Maharashtra, one of India’s most populous states, are to pilot accruals-based accounting
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9 Oct 13
South Africa’s Department of Social Development received a clean audit report for the 2012/13 fiscal year, a senior government minister revealed today.
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7 Oct 13
Governments across Africa need to encourage the creation of jobs through an expansion in public private partnerships, Uganda’s minister for finance, planning and economic development said today
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5 Mar 12
Mark Lowcock is a permanent secretary with a difference. Not only is he a qualified accountant but his department’s budget is actually rising. He tells PF how he is managing to cut costs while...
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...
29 Jan 15British MPs have raised questions about the integrity of investments made by the Private Infrastructure Development Group, an agency that receives a large amount of funding from the UK Department for...
1 Jul 14The high-level United Nations forum has set out plans to help governments across the world prepare the future global development agenda ahead of the replacement of the existing Millennium Development...
27 May 14The value for money agenda that drives the outsourcing of public services is also changing the way development money is spent globally. Could results-based financing be the future of aid?
5 Mar 12Mark Lowcock is a permanent secretary with a difference. Not only is he a qualified accountant but his department’s budget is actually rising. He tells PF how he is managing to cut costs while...
