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17 Jun 15
Jamaica is to receive $40m from the International Monetary Fund after a review concluded the country’s economic performance was “on track and has remained strong” but there remained...
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16 Jun 15
US First Lady Michelle Obama announced yesterday a $200m plan to educate young girls in developing countries, warning that it was now a “serious public health issue”.
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12 Jun 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East & Africa you might have missed.
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9 Jun 15
Integrated reporting in the public sector could improve the planning of public services across changes in governments and assist in the allocation of scarce resources, experts at a groundbreaking...
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5 Jun 15
CIPFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada to improve education and learning opportunities for public sector financial professionals in the...
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4 Jun 15
The UK has committed £20m in new funding to help tens of thousands of vulnerable Iraqis who have been forced to flee their homes by ISIL fighting, Justine Greening, the international...
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2 Jun 15
Growth projections for Russia this year and next year is significantly more optimistic than what was predicted two months ago, thanks to climbing oil prices, World Bank data has shown.
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1 Jun 15
Egypt is to receive a $140m loan and a $1.7m grant from the African Development Bank to develop its economy, particularly the aviation sector.
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27 May 15
The European Union and Switzerland have signed a historic tax agreement, which will end Swiss bank secrecy and prevent tax evaders from hiding undeclared income.
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27 May 15
International donors need to better target the aid they provide the world’s poorest countries if new development goals are to succeed, according to anti-poverty campaigners ONE.
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27 May 15
The United Nations is to hold an international conference to boost the recovery from Ebola in Africa in July, secretary general Ban Ki-moon has announced.
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27 May 15
African countries have been urged to mobilise the ‘untapped potential’ of their regions to help ensure growth is shared more equitably.
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27 May 15
The International Monetary Fund has approved a $69.7m three-year loan programme for Haiti to help the Caribbean island maintain economic stability after it was hit by the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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27 May 15
From on-the-ground development in Botswana to the top spot at DFID and now the EBRD, Sir Suma Chakrabarti’s career has been rooted in a passion for deliverable development. Here, he looks back...
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27 May 15
The European Union’s fourth anti-money laundering directive, which strengthens the existing framework on tax evasion and terrorist financing, was approved by the European Parliament yesterday.
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27 May 15
British efforts to work with businesses to deliver development programmes in poor countries are being obstructed by insufficient oversight and a lack of clear targets, the UK aid watchdog has warned.
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20 May 15
Government officials from across the Middle East and North Africa have met in Kuwait this week to discuss how to develop social security systems and other safety nets to deal with sluggish growth,...
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20 May 15
African accountants should involve themselves more in the work of the international standards setting boards, speakers at the Africa Congress of Accountants agreed.
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20 May 15
Africa cannot rise without the active participation of women in the finance profession, the Africa Congress of Accountants was told.
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20 May 15
The employment rate across the European Union has risen for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, sparking greater signs of an economic recovery, according to the EU’s statistical...
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20 May 15
Peru’s government should do more to improve the quality of education it offers to poor and vulnerable students in order to end extreme poverty, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim said.
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20 May 15
The UK Department for International Development and the International Monetary Fund have launched a new project to improve statistics gathering in 44 countries across the Middle East and Africa.
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20 May 15
Economic growth in the eurozone is expected to strengthen from 0.9% in 2014 to 1.5% this year, the European Commission predicted.
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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.