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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.
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20 Nov 18
New Zealand’s wellbeing budget has the potential to bring greater coherence and formality to the reporting of outcomes, says emeritus chair of CIPFA International Ian Ball.
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19 Nov 18
For the first time, world leaders wrapped up an Asian economic summit without a formal joint statement because of trade tensions between the US and China.
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19 Nov 18
Romania’s prime minister has said the country is ready to take over the European Union presidency next year, despite criticism about its judiciary reforms.
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16 Nov 18
Can Mexico’s new president fund his ‘peaceful social revolution’ by tackling corruption? Asks Gavin O’Toole.
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15 Nov 18
The Italian government has decided to go ahead with its controversial big spending plans, despite being told by Brussels to revise the draft budget.
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14 Nov 18
The UK could follow Donald Trump’s lead and stop funding Unesco, the UN’s cultural and education body, saving £11.1m a year.
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14 Nov 18
Borrowing by low and middle-income countries more than tripled in 2017 compared to the year before, World Bank statistics have revealed.
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14 Nov 18
Spain’s Court of Auditors has ordered former Catalan leader Artur Mas to repay €4.9m of public money spent organising a non-binding independence vote four years ago.
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13 Nov 18
It’s time to provide clarity on legal definitions to improve Macedonia’s VAT system, says professor of economics Marjan Petreski.
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13 Nov 18
Healthcare was a big driver in the outcome of the recent US mid-term elections. But could the Democrats' vision of a truly reformed healthcare system ever become a reality? Simone Rensch finds out.
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12 Nov 18
Ukraine needs to do more to fight corruption and maintain reform momentum, the European Commission has said in a report.
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12 Nov 18
A former deputy labour minister in Vietnam has been arrested on allegations of financial mismanagement as part of a crackdown on corruption.
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9 Nov 18
Some 10,000 Orthodox church employees could come off the Greek state payroll, ending the status of priests and bishops as civil servants.
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8 Nov 18
African countries can avoid debt distress if they ensure there is an ideal balance between revenues and expenditure, a former president of the African Development Bank has told a conference.
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7 Nov 18
South Africa is stepping up its efforts to “win this battle” against corruption, the chair of the country’s upper house of parliament has said.
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7 Nov 18
Corruption and money laundering are the “biggest hurdles” stopping Pakistan from developing and pulling people out of poverty, prime minister Imran Khan has warned.
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5 Nov 18
European governments are still making it too easy for multinational corporations to avoid paying corporation tax, campaigners have warned.
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5 Nov 18
Brazil’s president-elect has appointed a prominent anti-corruption judge to join his parliament as head of the justice ministry.
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31 Oct 18
The United Arab Emirates has passed a law to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.
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30 Oct 18
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with six counts of criminal breach of trust related to a case where billions of dollars went missing from a state fund.