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24 Apr 20
The fiscal deficit caused by the collapse of oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic could force Saudi Arabia to borrow about $26bn more than it planned this year, as well as draw down up to $32bn...
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17 Apr 20
G20 countries have agreed a finance plan to help some of the poorest countries in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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15 Apr 20
CIPFA is to launch a financial management training programme in partnership with the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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14 Apr 20
A new $10bn fund has been announced by the African Development Bank to help the continent’s governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
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7 Apr 20
Millions of job losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic are putting governments around the world under huge financial pressure to meet unemployment payments.
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7 Apr 20
Nigeria has asked for nearly $7bn from multilateral lenders to help it fight the impact of the coronavirus pandemic after its economy was hit by falling oil prices.
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6 Apr 20
The Asian Development Bank has sold its largest-ever single tranche of bonds as it strives to continue its work amid the coronavirus crisis.
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2 Apr 20
The coronavirus crisis has shown the EU’s fiscal rules to be in immediate need of reform, senior economists at Finland’s national audit office have claimed.
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30 Mar 20
There are many different methods for setting budgets, but two of the most widely used are incremental budgeting and zero-based budgeting. Here we look at the advantages and disadvantages of each, and...
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26 Mar 20
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are calling on G20 countries to step up debt relief for poorer nations, during the coronavirus pandemic.
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26 Mar 20
Somalia has been successfully granted debt relief by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, as it looks to ease its $5.2bn debt.
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13 Mar 20
Could a public-private partnership programme with the World Bank offer Sri Lanka a smarter way to develop its infrastructure?
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11 Mar 20
Maintaining a robust strategy for investment with a framework of controls and policies to support day-to-day investment decisions is fundamental to successful treasury management. When investing...
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10 Mar 20
Nigerian senate has approved a $22.7bn external borrowing plan, set out by president Muhammadu Buhari.
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10 Mar 20
Government bond yields across the world have plummeted, due to the combination of a sharp decline in oil prices and market uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus outbreak.
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6 Mar 20
Power cuts and poor performance by the state-owned power company Eskom are “killing the economy” of South Africa, an economist has told PFF after the country entered its second recession in two years.
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6 Mar 20
World financial institutions and governments this week rushed to provide billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus outbreak and support the economy.
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3 Mar 20
A complete global transition to accrual accounting would result in better public services around the world, according to a new report.
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26 Feb 20
French president Emmanuel Macron’s deficit reduction plans have faltered due to deviations from his planned programme of cuts, according to the country’s national audit office.
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18 Feb 20
Russian senators have supported a bill that would support local governments to set up participatory budgeting schemes.
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6 Feb 20
The European Commission has begun the process of overhauling the EU’s fiscal rules that it imposes on member countries.
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30 Jan 20
Lebanon’s 2020 budget has been passed by its parliament, with politicians desperate to see off an economic crisis.
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27 Jan 20
A hard-line trade union has called on the French government to abandon its pension reform proposals and start negotiations afresh.
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24 Jan 20
There have been fears that the legendary status of Scandinavian social welfare was starting to slip, but closer inspection suggests that it is merely being restyled to face fresh challenges.
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24 Jan 20
New Zealand instituted a number of reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s that were radical by any international standards. Today they would be described as transformative. While they have by no means...