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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...
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24 Jan 20
Donald Trump’s pressure on Mexico to host asylum-seekers after his ‘expedited removal’ of 300,000 immigrants has dashed the country’s hopes of developing a progressive migration policy.
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14 Jan 20
Germany recorded its largest ever budget surplus in 2019, the ministry of finance has announced.
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13 Jan 20
A compromise on pension reform hoped to bring about the end of more than a month of strikes in France has been submitted to trade unions by the country’s prime minister.
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19 Dec 19
A huge hydropower project in the Solomon Islands will “open the door” for more public-private partnership schemes, prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has said.
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18 Dec 19
Finnish economic growth is expected to slow in the next few years as public finances weaken, according to the government’s economists.
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17 Dec 19
The draft Portuguese budget projects the first fiscal surplus since the country’s transition to democracy 45 years ago.
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17 Dec 19
French president Emmanuel Macron suffered a blow to his pension reform ambitions as the high commissioner for pensions resigned amid countrywide strikes.
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13 Dec 19
Countries need help when transitioning from receiving aid to self-sufficiency, academics have said, pointing to Botswana as a good example for poor countries to follow.
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13 Dec 19
Australia needs to push through fiscal reforms as its economic growth is not as strong as it could be, the IMF has said.
26 Mar 20The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are calling on G20 countries to step up debt relief for poorer nations, during the coronavirus pandemic.
26 Mar 20Somalia has been successfully granted debt relief by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, as it looks to ease its $5.2bn debt.
13 Mar 20Could a public-private partnership programme with the World Bank offer Sri Lanka a smarter way to develop its infrastructure?
11 Mar 20Maintaining 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...
10 Mar 20Nigerian senate has approved a $22.7bn external borrowing plan, set out by president Muhammadu Buhari.
10 Mar 20Government 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.
6 Mar 20Power 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.
6 Mar 20World financial institutions and governments this week rushed to provide billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus outbreak and support the economy.
3 Mar 20A complete global transition to accrual accounting would result in better public services around the world, according to a new report.
26 Feb 20French 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.
18 Feb 20Russian senators have supported a bill that would support local governments to set up participatory budgeting schemes.
6 Feb 20The European Commission has begun the process of overhauling the EU’s fiscal rules that it imposes on member countries.
30 Jan 20Lebanon’s 2020 budget has been passed by its parliament, with politicians desperate to see off an economic crisis.
27 Jan 20A hard-line trade union has called on the French government to abandon its pension reform proposals and start negotiations afresh.
24 Jan 20There 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.
24 Jan 20New 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...
24 Jan 20Donald Trump’s pressure on Mexico to host asylum-seekers after his ‘expedited removal’ of 300,000 immigrants has dashed the country’s hopes of developing a progressive migration policy.
14 Jan 20Germany recorded its largest ever budget surplus in 2019, the ministry of finance has announced.
13 Jan 20A compromise on pension reform hoped to bring about the end of more than a month of strikes in France has been submitted to trade unions by the country’s prime minister.
19 Dec 19A huge hydropower project in the Solomon Islands will “open the door” for more public-private partnership schemes, prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has said.
18 Dec 19Finnish economic growth is expected to slow in the next few years as public finances weaken, according to the government’s economists.
17 Dec 19The draft Portuguese budget projects the first fiscal surplus since the country’s transition to democracy 45 years ago.
13 Dec 19Countries need help when transitioning from receiving aid to self-sufficiency, academics have said, pointing to Botswana as a good example for poor countries to follow.
13 Dec 19Australia needs to push through fiscal reforms as its economic growth is not as strong as it could be, the IMF has said.
