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15 Dec 17
South Africa’s high court has ordered president Jacob Zuma to pay the legal costs for trying to block a demand for an official inquiry into allegations against his government.
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15 Dec 17
Saudi Arabia’s king has approved a 72bn riyals ($19.2bn) programme to stimulate growth in his country’s private sector next year.
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15 Dec 17
The European Union has suspended funding for Cambodia’s general election next year after the main opposition party dissolved.
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12 Dec 17
Kuwait has replaced its finance, oil and defence ministers in cabinet changes following mass ministerial resignations, state news agency KUNA has said.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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8 Dec 17
Ukraine’s president is to implement anti-graft reforms and establish an anti-corruption court following International Monetary Fund and World Bank concerns that efforts had stalled.
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6 Dec 17
The Asian Development Bank will support the government of Azerbaijan in strengthening its public sector through $250m policy-based loans.
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6 Dec 17
The European Council has published its ‘blacklist’ of 17 countries classified as tax havens, which could lose access to funds from the bloc.
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5 Dec 17
The US Senate has narrowly approved plans paving the way for the president’s “massive tax cuts”, which could see more than a trillion dollars added to the national debt.
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4 Dec 17
The expansion of the middle-class changes the game for policymakers in emerging economies: ignore them at your peril, says Angel Melguizo of the OECD Development Centre.
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4 Dec 17
Iceland’s Left-Green opposition leader will become the new prime minister as a coalition government is formed.
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30 Nov 17
Development objectives need to come first in the EU’s new External Investment Plan and be backed by high levels of transparency, says Xavier Sol of Counter Balance.
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29 Nov 17
A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
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24 Nov 17
Digitalisation in government finance is losing the “arms race” as it is years behind its private counterparts, according to a professor from the London School of Economics.
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22 Nov 17
Economic recovery in Zimbabwe is still likely to be difficult even though Robert Mugabe has resigned as president, a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute has said.
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21 Nov 17
A new legislative assembly in Nunavut has to move quickly to get to grips with issues and fulfil their residents' expectations, says Marcel Holder Robinson.
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21 Nov 17
The royals, ministers and businessmen detained as part of Saudi Arabia’s crack-down on corruption will get due process of law, Saudi’s United Nations ambassador has said.
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21 Nov 17
El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
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20 Nov 17
Pakistan's anti-corruption court has issued an arrest warrant for the country’s finance minister after he failed to turn up to several court hearings.
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17 Nov 17
Russia has agreed to a $3.15bn restructuring deal of Venezuela’s debt over a 10-year period, Russia’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
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17 Nov 17
The UK government’s aid department must justify its spending to the public in the same way charities do, the new international development secretary has said.
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16 Nov 17
Zimbabwe needs businesses to operate freely and fairly to help the “mismanaged” economy recover, a research fellow at an independent think-tank has told Public Finance International.
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14 Nov 17
Venezuela has been declared in default after missing interest payments on its $60bn bond debt.
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10 Nov 17
A business school and philanthropic organisation are teaming up to find ways of identifying the risk of governments becoming unwilling or unable to meet loan obligations.
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10 Nov 17
Accountants who qualify at the University of Malaya will now be exempt from certain exams to complete the CIPFA International Public Financial Management qualification.
15 Dec 17South Africa’s high court has ordered president Jacob Zuma to pay the legal costs for trying to block a demand for an official inquiry into allegations against his government.
15 Dec 17Saudi Arabia’s king has approved a 72bn riyals ($19.2bn) programme to stimulate growth in his country’s private sector next year.
15 Dec 17The European Union has suspended funding for Cambodia’s general election next year after the main opposition party dissolved.
12 Dec 17Kuwait has replaced its finance, oil and defence ministers in cabinet changes following mass ministerial resignations, state news agency KUNA has said.
8 Dec 17Ukraine’s president is to implement anti-graft reforms and establish an anti-corruption court following International Monetary Fund and World Bank concerns that efforts had stalled.
6 Dec 17The Asian Development Bank will support the government of Azerbaijan in strengthening its public sector through $250m policy-based loans.
6 Dec 17The European Council has published its ‘blacklist’ of 17 countries classified as tax havens, which could lose access to funds from the bloc.
5 Dec 17The US Senate has narrowly approved plans paving the way for the president’s “massive tax cuts”, which could see more than a trillion dollars added to the national debt.
4 Dec 17The expansion of the middle-class changes the game for policymakers in emerging economies: ignore them at your peril, says Angel Melguizo of the OECD Development Centre.
4 Dec 17Iceland’s Left-Green opposition leader will become the new prime minister as a coalition government is formed.
30 Nov 17Development objectives need to come first in the EU’s new External Investment Plan and be backed by high levels of transparency, says Xavier Sol of Counter Balance.
29 Nov 17A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
24 Nov 17Digitalisation in government finance is losing the “arms race” as it is years behind its private counterparts, according to a professor from the London School of Economics.
22 Nov 17Economic recovery in Zimbabwe is still likely to be difficult even though Robert Mugabe has resigned as president, a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute has said.
21 Nov 17A new legislative assembly in Nunavut has to move quickly to get to grips with issues and fulfil their residents' expectations, says Marcel Holder Robinson.
21 Nov 17El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
20 Nov 17Pakistan's anti-corruption court has issued an arrest warrant for the country’s finance minister after he failed to turn up to several court hearings.
17 Nov 17Russia has agreed to a $3.15bn restructuring deal of Venezuela’s debt over a 10-year period, Russia’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
17 Nov 17The UK government’s aid department must justify its spending to the public in the same way charities do, the new international development secretary has said.
16 Nov 17Zimbabwe needs businesses to operate freely and fairly to help the “mismanaged” economy recover, a research fellow at an independent think-tank has told Public Finance International.
14 Nov 17Venezuela has been declared in default after missing interest payments on its $60bn bond debt.
10 Nov 17A business school and philanthropic organisation are teaming up to find ways of identifying the risk of governments becoming unwilling or unable to meet loan obligations.
10 Nov 17Accountants who qualify at the University of Malaya will now be exempt from certain exams to complete the CIPFA International Public Financial Management qualification.
