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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.