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14 Dec 18
The Portuguese government has approved a €500m plan to expand the metro systems in the cities of Lisbon and Porto, which is set to start next year.
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12 Dec 18
US president Donald Trump has threatened a government shutdown over funding for his planned wall on the Mexican border in a budget row with Democrats.
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12 Dec 18
The International Monetary Fund has approved $3.7bn to support Angola’s economic reforms and improvements to public financial management.
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11 Dec 18
French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes in response to the violent ‘yellow vest’ protests across the country.
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10 Dec 18
Mexico’s supreme court has suspended a new law that would cut all public sector salaries to below the president’s new reduced salary.
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10 Dec 18
Armenia’s acting prime minister has won the majority of the vote in the country’s snap election on a promise to tackle corruption and reform the economy.
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7 Dec 18
France may bring forward planned tax cuts to quell unrest in the country - but this would have to go “hand-in-hand with a decrease in spending”, the finance minister has warned.
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6 Dec 18
Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all public transport free, as the government prioritises the environment.
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6 Dec 18
The objectives of the European Union’s €4bn fund to promote long-term stability in Africa needs to be clearer and more focused, auditors have urged.
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4 Dec 18
The French government has announced a six-month suspension of the fuel tax that caused weeks of violent protests across the country.
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4 Dec 18
The world’s most powerful economies have agreed to improve the global trading system as US president Donald Trump delays Chinese tariffs.
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4 Dec 18
The Italian government has signalled it may back down on its high spending plans for next year, which were rejected by Brussels in October.
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3 Dec 18
South Africa’s struggling state-run power firm Eskom has warned the country faces more power cuts, on the fifth day of controlled so-called ‘load-shedding’.
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30 Nov 18
G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
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30 Nov 18
Public sector accountants have a responsibility to protect data as well as money, a top justice official has told PF International.
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30 Nov 18
Public and the private finance professionals across the globe need to collaborate to fight “innovative” criminals, a European event on fraud in the digital age heard.
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30 Nov 18
A top UK Department for International Development civil servant has vowed to fight attempts to spend increasing amounts of aid money outside his department.
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28 Nov 18
Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if the current administration does not change its policies, a government report has warned.
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27 Nov 18
To run a truly global foreign policy, the ultimate challenge for China is winning hearts and minds rather than showering cash, says Chatham House’s Dr Yu Jie.
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26 Nov 18
South Africa needs to take the fight against corruption “seriously” and stamp it out at local level, the president has said in his annual speech to the upper house.
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26 Nov 18
The Philippine government is overhauling its procurement system as part of wide-ranging plans to digitise financial management systems and improve transparency.
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26 Nov 18
Plans to step up the European Union’s anti-fraud work are “not enough to improve effectiveness”, the bloc’s auditors have warned.
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23 Nov 18
The IMF's Christine Lagarde explores the benefits of the G20 Compact with Africa, which is an agreement to promote private investment to the continent. This is ahead of the G20 annual meeting in...
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22 Nov 18
Police officers and soldiers have stormed the parliament of Papua New Guinea over unpaid wages for an international summit that wrapped up just days ago.
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21 Nov 18
European Union flood-related actions suffer because of “weaknesses” in allocating money to match member states’ risk management plans, auditors have warned.