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3 Sep 19
Argentina’s international bonds have fallen to record lows following the reintroduction of currency controls in the South American country.
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30 Aug 19
EU finance ministers will meet to discuss energy taxes and other moves to try to fight the threat of climate change next month.
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29 Aug 19
Thousands living in Estonia are unable to speak the national language because of a fragmented teaching service and heavy dependence on non-government funds, a watchdog has said.
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28 Aug 19
Top civil servants broadly have two strategies to choose between when deciding on efficiency cutbacks but must bear in mind the values that motivate the decisions, explains Leiden University’s Eduard...
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27 Aug 19
The Palestinian Authority has agreed a deal with the Israeli government in a dispute over the transfer of tax revenues.
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27 Aug 19
An international anti-corruption commission is being kicked out of Guatemala, with its supporters blaming the US for being too focused on migration in the region to defend it.
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27 Aug 19
Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump reached a compromise regarding France’s new tax on tech giants at the meeting of the G7 over the weekend.
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27 Aug 19
US president Donald Trump has called on American companies to “start looking for an alternative” to working in China or with Chinese businesses, as the trade war shows no sign of stopping.
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23 Aug 19
Activists have blamed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest.
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23 Aug 19
Three years on from the Panama Papers data leak, France has signed an agreement with Panama to try to fight tax evasion.
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23 Aug 19
Economist Abdalla Hamdok has been sworn in as prime minister of Sudan, and promised to solve the country’s economic crisis and end violence.
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22 Aug 19
India’s former finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was arrested late last night in relation to corruption and money laundering allegations.
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21 Aug 19
Whistleblowers in Ukraine could be paid up to 10% of the value of the corruption they expose, if laws currently being drafted are put into place.
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20 Aug 19
Argentina would struggle to repay a loan to the IMF under the current “impossible” conditions, the opposition presidential candidate has claimed.
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19 Aug 19
Sudan’s ex-president has admitted to receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a detective has told a court at the start of a corruption trial.
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16 Aug 19
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won the latest round in his legal battle against an anti-corruption watchdog.
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12 Aug 19
New Zealand and Switzerland have made a deal they hope will make it harder for multinational companies to dodge paying tax.
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12 Aug 19
While some progress has been made on improving international ethical standards across the public finance sector there is still much to do, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
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12 Aug 19
Struggling South African state power utility Eskom wants the majority of its 440bn rand ($29bn) debt transferred to the country’s government.
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8 Aug 19
The government of Moldova has launched a website giving the public information on national and local government budgets.
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7 Aug 19
Italy has pledged to spend €80m on installing CCTV cameras in schools and nurseries, which the government has said is for the safety of children and teachers.
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7 Aug 19
The Donald Trump campaign and the Republican Party are suing the state of California over a requirement for presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns.
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6 Aug 19
Singapore and the UK have begun working together to improve the design and delivery of digital public services, the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office revealed today.
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30 Jul 19
Protests in Hong Kong are damaging its economy and could push up unemployment, according to the territory’s financial secretary.
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30 Jul 19
A team of South African experts has said some land should be expropriated but has held back from full-scale nationalisation.