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19 Jun 17
The International Federation of Accountants has reiterated its call for better governance and public financial management to make it on to the G20’s agenda.
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19 Jun 17
French president Emmanuel Macron’s newly formed party has won a clear majority in the country’s parliament.
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16 Jun 17
The US’s planned cuts to foreign aid would have “life and death consequences” and harm American interests, according to a coalition of aid and health NGOs.
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16 Jun 17
Critical bailout funds for Greece have been agreed at the eleventh hour after months of wrangling amongst creditors, with the International Monetary Fund offering conditional backing to the package.
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15 Jun 17
The International Monetary Fund has raised China’s growth forecast for the second time this year, boosting it to 6.7%.
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15 Jun 17
Governments around the world must do more to support Uganda and other nations shouldering the greatest burden from South Sudan’s refugee exodus, a newly formed council for refugees has stressed.
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15 Jun 17
Business confidence in South Africa has slumped to its lowest since 2009 after a third ratings agency downgraded the country’s debt last week.
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15 Jun 17
The total value of negative-yielding public debt rose by nearly $1tn between the start of March and the end of May, according to ratings agency Fitch.
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13 Jun 17
Italy must press ahead with reforms to its public sector in order to foster stronger growth, the International Monetary Fund has stressed.
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13 Jun 17
The International Monetary Fund has released $314.4m to Tunisia, rewarding the government’s efforts towards economic stability.
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13 Jun 17
MEPs have been urged to close a “dangerous loophole” recently introduced into draft transparency legislation meant to prevent corporate tax avoidance by large multinationals.
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12 Jun 17
French president Emmanuel Macron's party looks set to secure a landslide victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, based on results from the first round of voting.
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12 Jun 17
The African Development Bank is to work with the continent’s central banks to help reduce the high levels of capital pouring out of Africa.
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12 Jun 17
India has offered tax cuts as a sweetener to those opposing one of the country’s biggest ever tax reforms, due to be rolled out in three week’s time.
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9 Jun 17
Japan’s government has halved initially optimistic economic growth figures for the first three months of this year, citing newly available data.
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9 Jun 17
The risk of deflation in the eurozone has “definitely disappeared”, president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi announced yesterday.
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8 Jun 17
The German government could have to fork out billions of euros in tax rebates after the country’s constitutional court ruled that a nuclear fuel levy it imposed on energy companies was illegal.
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8 Jun 17
The European Commission has launched the bloc’s first shared fund for defence, which it said would ensure spending is more efficient and improve value for money.
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8 Jun 17
More than 70 countries have backed the swift implementation of international measures to limit tax avoidance by multinational companies.
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7 Jun 17
The economic damage to the Qatari economy of five other Arab states suddenly severing their ties with the country will depend on the duration of the dispute, according to Fitch Ratings.
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7 Jun 17
More investment in infrastructure and good governance will be key to Cambodia’s continuing economic success, according to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director.
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7 Jun 17
Aid to education is stagnating, according to United Nations cultural agency Unesco, which has highlighted that funding allocated to the sector fell for the sixth year in a row in 2015.
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7 Jun 17
The Australian economy has broken the global record for staying recession free, with official figures published today marking 26 years of consecutive growth for the country.
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6 Jun 17
South Africa’s economy slipped back into recession for the second time in 10 years in the first three months of 2017.
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6 Jun 17
Nigeria’s total public debt rose to $62.9bn at the end of March this year, as the country struggles to deliver its spending plans amid its first recession in a quarter of a century.