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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.
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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.
27 May 15British 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.
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.
