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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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29 Nov 17
Budget consolidation and growth-friendly investment will be key to Germany’s coalition talks, chancellor Angela Merkel has told an employers’ conference.
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29 Nov 17
The Asian Development Bank will provide a $45m loan to help improve Uzbekistan’s healthcare.
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28 Nov 17
Global economic performance is still weaker than a decade ago and “remains below the pre-crisis period and that of past recoveries”, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
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28 Nov 17
Portugal’s parliament has approved the 2018 budget that seeks to trim the deficit, six weeks after it was first presented to lawmakers.
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28 Nov 17
South African president Jacob Zuma has asked the minister of finance to identify measures to “urgently” address economic challenges, the president’s office said yesterday. ...
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28 Nov 17
Japan will reportedly compile an extra budget worth around 2.7-2.9trn yen ($24-26bn) for the fiscal year ending March 2018.
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28 Nov 17
Global funding for the Rohingya crisis will only meet “urgent needs” for the next 100 days, the UK international development secretary has said.
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27 Nov 17
The Dutch government will not provide any aid to help Saint Martin recover from Hurricane Irma unless the prime minister steps down, the cabinet has said.
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27 Nov 17
The African Development Bank has agreed to a €180m loan to support Cameroon’s reforms to shore up public finances.
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27 Nov 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $300m loan and a $500,000 technical assistance grant to support the Philippines’ financial sector reforms.
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24 Nov 17
The Asian Development Bank and the government of Indonesia will partner up to promote public-private partnerships in the transport sector.
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24 Nov 17
Barbados should cut spending or risk its debt problems rising, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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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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24 Nov 17
The African Development Bank has approved a loan of €112m for Tunisia road improvements.
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23 Nov 17
The European Parliament and Council have reached an agreement on the 2018 budget and committed to spending €160bn, up from the €157.9bn agreed for 2017.
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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
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
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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
Paris and Amsterdam will host the EU’s medical and banking watchdogs after ministers picked names from a large bowl to decide where the organisations and 1,000 staff should move after Brexit.
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21 Nov 17
Japan has pledged to give up to $1.03bn of development aid to Myanmar to help improve rural incomes.
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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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21 Nov 17
A group of 10 Southeast Asian nations needs more than $60bn to close the infrastructure gap in the region, a conference heard.
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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
Japan’s economy has experienced the longest period of uninterrupted growth in more than a decade, with faster growth than expected in the third quarter.