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21 Aug 17
Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
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21 Aug 17
The World Bank has signed a zero-interest $200m credit with Myanmar to help with programmes that include better public debt management, increased tax collection and stronger public finance management.
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21 Aug 17
Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
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18 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an agreement that will allow the bank to increase its climate financing in developing member countries.
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18 Aug 17
The Philippine government has launched a new catastrophe risk insurance programme to help it respond to losses from natural disasters.
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18 Aug 17
More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
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18 Aug 17
Annual inflation in the whole EU is stable at 1.5%, and at 1.3% in the eurozone, the Eurostat statistical body of the EU has said in its monthly update for July.
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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.
21 Aug 17Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
21 Aug 17The World Bank has signed a zero-interest $200m credit with Myanmar to help with programmes that include better public debt management, increased tax collection and stronger public finance management.
21 Aug 17Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
18 Aug 17The Asian Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an agreement that will allow the bank to increase its climate financing in developing member countries.
18 Aug 17The Philippine government has launched a new catastrophe risk insurance programme to help it respond to losses from natural disasters.
18 Aug 17More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
18 Aug 17Annual inflation in the whole EU is stable at 1.5%, and at 1.3% in the eurozone, the Eurostat statistical body of the EU has said in its monthly update for July.
18 Aug 17More 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).
18 Aug 17China is set to grow more strongly but should take action to increase domestic spending, the International Monetary Fund has said.
16 Aug 17The United Nations has released $150,000 in emergency aid relief to Sierra Leone after fatal mudslides in the country, the global organisation announced yesterday.
15 Aug 17The European Council has received 27 proposals from member states to host key EU agencies currently based in the UK after Brexit.
15 Aug 17American 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.
15 Aug 17Malta’s ministry of finance is working towards introducing accrual accounting to all government departments over the next two and a half years.
15 Aug 17The international community must act now to stop the spread of cholera in war-torn Yemen, the UK’s international development secretary has said.
14 Aug 17Japan'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.
11 Aug 17Mexico 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...
11 Aug 17The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to loan Bangladesh $200m to strengthen municipal infrastructure, service delivery and governance in 35 localities.
11 Aug 17Three Danish pension funds have combined to create a $550m vehicle for infrastructure investments in Africa.
10 Aug 17Argentina needs further reforms to boost productivity and competitiveness of the economy, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has identified.
10 Aug 17India’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.
10 Aug 17Iraq has positive medium-term growth prospects but remains exposed to significant risks, the International Monetary Fund has said.
10 Aug 17Kenyan government officials are denying opposition claims that the election has been hacked, as preliminary results point to a victory for the incumbent president.
10 Aug 17The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
8 Aug 17International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.
