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6 Jul 20
Sovereign wealth and pension funds should seek investments that couple financial returns with societal and environmental benefits, researchers from the Inter-American Development Bank have argued.
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3 Jul 20
Black Lives Matter protests show there is a fiscal element to social justice, and should force governments to think about how to involve marginalised people in budget-setting, a transparency...
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3 Jul 20
Namibia is looking to set up a sovereign wealth fund to secure savings for its future, the country’s government has said.
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1 Jul 20
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted structural problems in the financial relationship between Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments, according to Muhammad Afnan Alam.
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30 Jun 20
The Australian government is making its largest ever investment in cyber security, through a commitment to spend more than $1bn over the next decade.
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30 Jun 20
France should undertake an “in-depth review” of its public spending policies in order to rebuild its economy and stop government debt spiralling, the country’s state auditor has said.
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24 Jun 20
Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
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23 Jun 20
Japan will not change its target to return to a budget surplus by 2025, despite its huge fiscal efforts to counter the impact of Covid-19, its finance minister has said.
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16 Jun 20
No new taxes have been levied to deal with the public finance toll of Covid-19 in Pakistan’s new budget, in which the government outlined a huge stimulus package and a sizeable hike in defence...
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5 Jun 20
Local governments in Finland are set to be given a higher share of corporation tax receipts than usual, to help them to continue to provide services amid the Covid-19 crisis.
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2 Jun 20
The shock of Covid-19 combined with years of declining foreign aid has left the Palestinian Authority with a “monumental task” to save its economy and protect its public finances, a World Bank...
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2 Jun 20
Treasury management is a fast-moving and ever-changing discipline. Understanding the environment that you are operating in and developing an effective strategy is essential to identifying and...
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29 May 20
Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
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22 May 20
The US spending watchdog has told the government it could save tens of billions of dollars by reducing overlap and duplication in its programmes.
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20 May 20
France and Germany have proposed that a €500bn EU recovery fund be distributed to the member nations worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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15 May 20
Egypt’s request for a $2.7bn emergency loan to help offset the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been approved by the International Monetary Fund.
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12 May 20
New Zealand is to plough a record NZ$4bn ($2.4bn) of additional funding into health services over the next four years, as the government looks to balance a ‘legacy of neglect’.
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12 May 20
Saudi Arabia is set to suspend the living allowance for state employees, in a bid reduce spending amid an economic outlook hit by plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic.
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30 Apr 20
Nigeria has been given an emergency $3.4bn support package from the IMF to deal with the economic impact of coronavirus and the sharp fall in oil prices.
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28 Apr 20
The Russian government has been urged to spend half of its National Wealth Fund of saved oil and gas revenues to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
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28 Apr 20
Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
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24 Apr 20
The US House of Representatives has approved $484bn more of coronavirus relief measures, bringing the government’s total spending on fighting the crisis to almost $3trn.
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24 Apr 20
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a Covid-19 economic rescue package equivalent to 10% of his country’s GDP.
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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.
6 Jul 20Sovereign wealth and pension funds should seek investments that couple financial returns with societal and environmental benefits, researchers from the Inter-American Development Bank have argued.
3 Jul 20Black Lives Matter protests show there is a fiscal element to social justice, and should force governments to think about how to involve marginalised people in budget-setting, a transparency...
3 Jul 20Namibia is looking to set up a sovereign wealth fund to secure savings for its future, the country’s government has said.
1 Jul 20The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted structural problems in the financial relationship between Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments, according to Muhammad Afnan Alam.
30 Jun 20The Australian government is making its largest ever investment in cyber security, through a commitment to spend more than $1bn over the next decade.
30 Jun 20France should undertake an “in-depth review” of its public spending policies in order to rebuild its economy and stop government debt spiralling, the country’s state auditor has said.
24 Jun 20Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
23 Jun 20Japan will not change its target to return to a budget surplus by 2025, despite its huge fiscal efforts to counter the impact of Covid-19, its finance minister has said.
5 Jun 20Local governments in Finland are set to be given a higher share of corporation tax receipts than usual, to help them to continue to provide services amid the Covid-19 crisis.
2 Jun 20The shock of Covid-19 combined with years of declining foreign aid has left the Palestinian Authority with a “monumental task” to save its economy and protect its public finances, a World Bank...
2 Jun 20Treasury management is a fast-moving and ever-changing discipline. Understanding the environment that you are operating in and developing an effective strategy is essential to identifying and...
29 May 20Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
22 May 20The US spending watchdog has told the government it could save tens of billions of dollars by reducing overlap and duplication in its programmes.
20 May 20France and Germany have proposed that a €500bn EU recovery fund be distributed to the member nations worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
15 May 20Egypt’s request for a $2.7bn emergency loan to help offset the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been approved by the International Monetary Fund.
12 May 20New Zealand is to plough a record NZ$4bn ($2.4bn) of additional funding into health services over the next four years, as the government looks to balance a ‘legacy of neglect’.
12 May 20Saudi Arabia is set to suspend the living allowance for state employees, in a bid reduce spending amid an economic outlook hit by plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic.
30 Apr 20Nigeria has been given an emergency $3.4bn support package from the IMF to deal with the economic impact of coronavirus and the sharp fall in oil prices.
28 Apr 20The Russian government has been urged to spend half of its National Wealth Fund of saved oil and gas revenues to deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
28 Apr 20Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
24 Apr 20The US House of Representatives has approved $484bn more of coronavirus relief measures, bringing the government’s total spending on fighting the crisis to almost $3trn.
24 Apr 20South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a Covid-19 economic rescue package equivalent to 10% of his country’s GDP.
24 Apr 20The 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...
17 Apr 20G20 countries have agreed a finance plan to help some of the poorest countries in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
