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4 Mar 19
Bangladesh is to boost its public financial management and budget process with the help of a $100m loan from the World Bank.
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28 Feb 19
The Italian city council in Venice has agreed to implement a fee for tourists who visit for one day only, to cover essential services such as cleaning and rubbish collection.
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27 Feb 19
An ex-mayor of Rome has been sentenced to six years in prison and given a lifetime ban on holding public office after being found guilty of corruption and illegal financing.
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27 Feb 19
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25 Feb 19
Ecuador is close to securing a $4.2bn loan from the International Monetary Fund to help boost its economic policies over the next three years.
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25 Feb 19
The president of Indonesia has committed a total of $30bn of investment to local villages over the next five years – if he wins a second term in the April elections.
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25 Feb 19
The government of Tanzania is trying to find buyers for a mass of cashew nuts it bought from farmers last year.
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22 Feb 19
Brazil’s president has put forward plans to revamp the country’s pensions system, a move which the government claims could save more than $270bn over the next decade.
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20 Feb 19
Zambia’s Finance Ministry will clean up its payroll system in order to remove ‘ghost workers’ and reduce the public service wage bill.
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19 Feb 19
A coalition of 16 states in the US is suing president Donald Trump’s administration over his decision to declare a national emergency to pay for a wall on the Mexican border.
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18 Feb 19
Portugal should use its economic recovery to “shore up its public finances” and build stronger resilience to future shocks, the OECD has urged.
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18 Feb 19
Corruption weakens democratic institutions and populist leaders can take advantage of mistrust in public bodies, says Transparency International's Coralie Pring.
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18 Feb 19
Saudi Arabia has promised investment deals worth $20bn with Pakistan to help boost its struggling economy.
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15 Feb 19
US president Donald Trump has agreed to sign spending plans to keep the government open but intends to use emergency powers to get funding for the wall on the Mexican border.
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14 Feb 19
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to protest against high unemployment and utility price hikes.
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12 Feb 19
Pakistan is on the way to securing an International Monetary Fund bailout package after prime minister Imran Khan promised to carry out structural reforms.
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12 Feb 19
US Democrats and Republicans have reached a tentative deal to prevent another government shutdown, giving funding to a US-Mexican border barrier.
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11 Feb 19
Governments need to focus on their debts with OECD research showing sovereign borrowing is to hit a record high in 2019, says the OECD's Fatos Koc.
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11 Feb 19
Talks between Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress aimed at stopping another government shutdown have broken down without agreement.
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11 Feb 19
Women in Hungary with four or more children will never have to pay income tax, the country’s prime minister has promised in a move to boost the number of babies being born.
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11 Feb 19
Finland’s two-year experiment to give people an unconditional monthly income did not boost employment, researchers have said.
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8 Feb 19
Italy’s failure to implement wide-ranging reforms is leaving the economy “vulnerable”, with its annual economic growth projected to stay below 1% up until 2023, according to the IMF.
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7 Feb 19
Adopting accounting standards similar to those used by private companies and based on accrual accounting could restore trust in governments, writes investment consultant Dag Detter.
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7 Feb 19
Government spending in south African country Lesotho – including on public sector wages – requires tighter controls amid a lack of incoming cash, the IMF has warned.
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5 Feb 19
Italy’s economy tipped into recession at the end of last year and is likely to continue to shrink this year, according to official figures.