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8 Mar 21
Unemployment insurance reforms aimed at reducing the deficit at state agency UNEDIC will be a credit positive move for France, according to rating’s agency Moody’s.
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22 Jan 21
The USA’s top health official says the country will join global efforts to help poor countries overcome Covid-19, while new Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has committed to big domestic spending...
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17 Dec 20
Eurozone government debt as a proportion of the economy has ballooned by nearly one-fifth amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a statement from the group’s finance ministers.
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17 Dec 20
A €17.5bn fund for regions in the EU that are heavily dependent on fossil fuels has been agreed by negotiators from the European Council and the bloc’s parliament.
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14 Dec 20
Governments are facing one of the biggest ever challenges to their financial resilience because of the pandemic. Professor Ileana Steccolini outlines how the University of Essex and CIPFA are teaming...
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1 Dec 20
Sweden’s central bank has imposed sustainability criteria on a SEK200bn (US$23bn) extension to its quantitative easing programme.
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30 Nov 20
The Covid-19 pandemic could hit a recent recovery in investment sub-national governments, according to research by the OECD.
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25 Nov 20
The European Investment bank has approved an €890m loan towards the development of a high-speed rail line from Madrid to the Portuguese border.
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14 Sep 20
An equal number of men and women will lead the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board for the first time, following the appointment of three new members.
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24 Aug 20
The European Commission has presented proposals to the European Council to grant financial support of €81.4bn to 15 member states.
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20 Aug 20
An ethics scandal has forced Canada’s finance minister to resign, paving the way for the country’s first ever female holder of the position.
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19 Aug 20
CIPFA’s Alan Edwards has been appointed as chair of a committee working to improve public financial management in the Asia Pacific region.
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27 Feb 20
The UK government’s international departments are set for a shake-up, after prime minister Boris Johnson launched a review into how the country can face its “global opportunities and challenges”...
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20 Feb 20
Huge amounts of international aid meant for some of the world’s poorest people is ending up in tax havens, according to a report by World Bank economists.
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6 Feb 20
The European Commission has begun the process of overhauling the EU’s fiscal rules that it imposes on member countries.
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6 Jan 20
France will retaliate if the US imposes tariffs on its cheese and champagne, the country’s finance minister has warned.
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13 Dec 19
Countries need help when transitioning from receiving aid to self-sufficiency, academics have said, pointing to Botswana as a good example for poor countries to follow.
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13 Dec 19
Australia needs to push through fiscal reforms as its economic growth is not as strong as it could be, the IMF has said.
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11 Dec 19
Corruption is a barrier to creating a better, fairer and more equal society, a top UN official has said.
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10 Dec 19
Inequalities surrounding education, climate change and technology could trigger a “new great divergence” in society of a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution, the United Nations Development...
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10 Dec 19
‘Over-the-counter’ derivatives offer indefinite flexibility that can help governments finance long-term infrastructure projects, the Asian Development Bank’s Jonathan Grosvenor writes.
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9 Dec 19
The president of the Asian Development Bank has committed to working more closely with the private sector to strengthen good governance and anti-corruption measures.
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6 Dec 19
Pakistan has been given an emergency $1bn loan to help shore up its public finances and provide support to a slowing economy.
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4 Dec 19
Auditors have called on the EU to impose stronger rules on its member countries’ budgets, to avoid future financial crises.
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3 Dec 19
Venezuela’s migration can potentially raise GDP growth in receiving countries, writes the IMF’s Emilio Fernandez Corugedo and Jaime Guajardo.