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18 Aug 17
More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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18 Aug 17
China is set to grow more strongly but should take action to increase domestic spending, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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16 Aug 17
The United Nations has released $150,000 in emergency aid relief to Sierra Leone after fatal mudslides in the country, the global organisation announced yesterday.
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15 Aug 17
The European Council has received 27 proposals from member states to host key EU agencies currently based in the UK after Brexit.
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15 Aug 17
American senators have urged the US Treasury to use the tools available to it to crack down on corruption in South Sudan, which they say is enabling violence and civil unrest.
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15 Aug 17
Malta’s ministry of finance is working towards introducing accrual accounting to all government departments over the next two and a half years.
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15 Aug 17
The international community must act now to stop the spread of cholera in war-torn Yemen, the UK’s international development secretary has said.
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15 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank has issued two types of green bond, raising $1.25bn to finance climate change projects.
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14 Aug 17
Japan's economy grew at its fastest pace in more than two years in the second quarter of this year as consumer and company spending picked up, official data has shown.
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11 Aug 17
Mexico cannot solve its growth problems simply by renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), Moody’s Investors Service has said ahead of the start of next week’s...
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11 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan Bangladesh $200m to strengthen municipal infrastructure, service delivery and governance in 35 localities.
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11 Aug 17
Three Danish pension funds have combined to create a $550m vehicle for infrastructure investments in Africa.
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10 Aug 17
Argentina needs further reforms to boost productivity and competitiveness of the economy, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has identified.
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10 Aug 17
India’s income tax return filing rate has risen by 25% since the country demonetised certain large banknotes, its Central Board of Direct Taxes has said.
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10 Aug 17
Iraq has positive medium-term growth prospects but remains exposed to significant risks, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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10 Aug 17
Kenyan government officials are denying opposition claims that the election has been hacked, as preliminary results point to a victory for the incumbent president.
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10 Aug 17
The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
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8 Aug 17
International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.
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8 Aug 17
Nearly all Latin American and Caribbean countries will record a small positive rate of economic growth this year, the United Nations Latin America Commission has said in its annual report.
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8 Aug 17
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
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7 Aug 17
Tunisia’s growth is slowly improving, but strong consumption is fuelling inflation and the public sector wage bill is among the world’s highest by proportion of GDP, the International...
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7 Aug 17
The World Bank has issued Mexico with catastrophe bonds worth $360m to protect in against financial losses from earthquakes and tropical cyclones.
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7 Aug 17
The International Monetary Fund's executive board has reviewed its standards and codes initiative.
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7 Aug 17
Belize must make long-term plans to gain the greatest benefit from and protect its natural resources, the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank has stressed, following an...
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4 Aug 17
The International Monetary Fund will seek a more systematic engagement with member states on governance and corruption, but has rejected the idea of ranking them based on their degree of corruption.