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13 Dec 16
Syria’s brutal five-year civil war could have cost the country as much as $38bn in lost growth, researchers from the UK have estimated.
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13 Dec 16
Claims the International Monetary Fund is demanding more austerity in Greece amount to ‘turning the truth upside down’, the fund has argued.
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13 Dec 16
‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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13 Dec 16
The World Health Organisation has launched a data portal to track progress towards universal health coverage around the world.
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12 Dec 16
The OECD has updated its anti-corruption standards for donor governments that are increasingly working with the private sector on aid and development.
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12 Dec 16
Governments should focus spending on mental health and wellbeing, researchers have argued, after a study found these are more closely linked to happiness than financial problems or poverty.
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12 Dec 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde is due before court in France today to face charges of negligence relating to her time as the country’s finance minister.
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12 Dec 16
Brazil’s planned 20-year government spending freeze will breach citizens’ human rights, a United Nations expert has concluded.
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12 Dec 16
Venezuela’s largest bank note will be pulled from circulation this week in a surprise move announced by the country’s president Nicolas Maduro yesterday.
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9 Dec 16
European Union protections against pandemics that could spread quickly throughout the bloc suffer from “significant weaknesses”, the European Court of Auditors has found.
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9 Dec 16
A UK think-tank is calling on the Bangladesh government to spend more on education and welfare after finding that young children from the country’s slums are working for over 60 hours per week,...
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9 Dec 16
International lawmakers have signed an open letter urging their governments to pursue greater tax transparency following a summit on the issue in the UK today.
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9 Dec 16
The European Central Bank is to scale its quantitative easing programme back by €20bn per month from March 2017.
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8 Dec 16
The European Union’s support for improved financial management and governance in Ukraine has been only partially effective, and the limited results achieved so far remain “fragile”, the bloc’s...
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8 Dec 16
The Federation of European Accountants has rebranded as Accountancy Europe and elected a fresh leadership team to mark its 30th anniversary.
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8 Dec 16
India’s central bank has defended the government’s decision to pull two high denomination rupee notes out of circulation, a move that sent the country into disarray.
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8 Dec 16
It has been an “exceptionally weak” year for sub-Saharan African growth, according to ratings agency Fitch, with an economic expansion of just 0.9% expected be registered in 2016.
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7 Dec 16
Strengthening trade links and attracting foreign direct investment will contribute to Asia and the Pacific’s growth, and help improve resilience to emerging protectionism, according to the...
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6 Dec 16
Audit institutions and governments need to make audit reports on public spending more accessible to civil society organisations, the International Budget Partnership has found.
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6 Dec 16
Eurozone finance ministers have agreed on short-term debt relief measures for Greece, but remain divided on the country’s fiscal targets and the reforms needed to reach them.
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5 Dec 16
The United Nations has launched a $22.2bn funding appeal for 2017 – the largest amount the organisation’s humanitarian arm has ever called for from governments.
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5 Dec 16
Venezuela is to introduce a new bank note worth 200 times its current, highest denomination in a bid to ease transactions in its rapidly inflating economy.
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5 Dec 16
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has resigned after suffering a decisive defeat in a referendum to alter the country’s constitution, fiercely resisted by anti-establishment parties on the far...
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2 Dec 16
The mayors of four major capital cities have committed to taking all diesel-powered vehicles off their streets by 2025.
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2 Dec 16
Money looted from Nigeria and seized by the UK should be used to save millions of people from starvation in the country’s north east, Save the Children has said.