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2 Feb 16
A colonial-era tax treaty between Malawi and the UK is costing the African country significant amounts of lost tax revenue and must be reformed, the charity ActionAid said today.
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2 Feb 16
In the wake of the steep decline in commodity prices, sub-Saharan Africa needs to restore competitiveness to diversify its economies, sustain its impressive growth and create jobs for its growing...
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29 Jan 16
The latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
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29 Jan 16
The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency has warned any policies of “control and closure” in Europe to tackle the refugee crisis would be “dangerous”.
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29 Jan 16
The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
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28 Jan 16
More than thirty countries have today signed an agreement that enables the automatic sharing of country-by-country financial reports from multinational companies.
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28 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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28 Jan 16
The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
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27 Jan 16
The Danish parliament has voted to pass controversial laws enabling the confiscation of money and valuables from asylum seekers to help pay for their stay in the country.
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26 Jan 16
The European Commission's response to the financial crisis of the late 2000s was "generally weak", with measures not applied consistently and lacking in thorough scrutiny, auditors have said.
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26 Jan 16
A review by the European Commission has found that 11 countries in the bloc face high risks to their public finances due to forecasts for increases in public sector debt levels.
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26 Jan 16
World economic growth will fall to its lowest rate since the financial crisis this year and could be as little as 2%, the Centre for Economics and Business Research has forecast.
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25 Jan 16
The UK has pledged £30m in new aid funding to help those arriving in Europe after escaping the brutal conflict in Syria, the country’s international development secretary announced on Friday.
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25 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has announced that 21 countries in the Americas and about ten in Africa, Asia and the Pacific have reported cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus infection and warned...
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25 Jan 16
The government of Suriname has requested financial support from a number of international lenders as its economy is crippled by the fall in commodity prices.
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22 Jan 16
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has condemned a move by Israel to claim 370 acres of land in the occupied West Bank as a “violation of international law”.
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22 Jan 16
The International Monetary Fund has forecast negative growth in the Latin American economy for the second consecutive year, a dip of a duration not seen since the debt crisis of 1982-3.
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22 Jan 16
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21 Jan 16
Foreign direct investment into industrialised nations pushed global FDI to an eight-year high in 2015, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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21 Jan 16
Canada has the highest proportion of women among its senior central government officials of all the G20 countries, followed by Australia, South Africa, the UK and Brazil, according to research from...
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20 Jan 16
Global unemployment looks set to rise to 200 million people by 2017, the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation has concluded.
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20 Jan 16
Living standards in Latin America will not rise unless the region tackles its “twin challenges” of inequality and low productivity, the OECD has warned.
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20 Jan 16
The European Commission has ordered Belgium to recover €211m in funding granted to several companies, part of a global steel trading group, after finding that payments breached state aid rules.
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20 Jan 16
The United Nations special representative for Iraq has called on the international community to step up its support to the nation following revelations of a “staggering” civilian death toll and...
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20 Jan 16
The increase in refugee numbers in Europe will place extra pressure on the public purse in the short term, the International Monetary Fund has found, but could have positive economic effects in the...
2 Feb 16A colonial-era tax treaty between Malawi and the UK is costing the African country significant amounts of lost tax revenue and must be reformed, the charity ActionAid said today.
2 Feb 16In the wake of the steep decline in commodity prices, sub-Saharan Africa needs to restore competitiveness to diversify its economies, sustain its impressive growth and create jobs for its growing...
29 Jan 16The latest valuation of the welfare system in New Zealand has found that government reforms have contributed to a NZD12bn reduction in the future lifetime cost of the system over the last four years.
29 Jan 16The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency has warned any policies of “control and closure” in Europe to tackle the refugee crisis would be “dangerous”.
29 Jan 16The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
28 Jan 16More than thirty countries have today signed an agreement that enables the automatic sharing of country-by-country financial reports from multinational companies.
28 Jan 16The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
28 Jan 16The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
27 Jan 16The Danish parliament has voted to pass controversial laws enabling the confiscation of money and valuables from asylum seekers to help pay for their stay in the country.
26 Jan 16The European Commission's response to the financial crisis of the late 2000s was "generally weak", with measures not applied consistently and lacking in thorough scrutiny, auditors have said.
26 Jan 16World economic growth will fall to its lowest rate since the financial crisis this year and could be as little as 2%, the Centre for Economics and Business Research has forecast.
25 Jan 16The UK has pledged £30m in new aid funding to help those arriving in Europe after escaping the brutal conflict in Syria, the country’s international development secretary announced on Friday.
25 Jan 16The government of Suriname has requested financial support from a number of international lenders as its economy is crippled by the fall in commodity prices.
22 Jan 16United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has condemned a move by Israel to claim 370 acres of land in the occupied West Bank as a “violation of international law”.
22 Jan 16The International Monetary Fund has forecast negative growth in the Latin American economy for the second consecutive year, a dip of a duration not seen since the debt crisis of 1982-3.
22 Jan 16
21 Jan 16Foreign direct investment into industrialised nations pushed global FDI to an eight-year high in 2015, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
21 Jan 16Canada has the highest proportion of women among its senior central government officials of all the G20 countries, followed by Australia, South Africa, the UK and Brazil, according to research from...
20 Jan 16Global unemployment looks set to rise to 200 million people by 2017, the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation has concluded.
20 Jan 16Living standards in Latin America will not rise unless the region tackles its “twin challenges” of inequality and low productivity, the OECD has warned.
20 Jan 16The European Commission has ordered Belgium to recover €211m in funding granted to several companies, part of a global steel trading group, after finding that payments breached state aid rules.
20 Jan 16The United Nations special representative for Iraq has called on the international community to step up its support to the nation following revelations of a “staggering” civilian death toll and...
