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23 Sep 16
Almost €400m of European Union investment into ports and maritime infrastructure within the bloc since 2000 has been wasted, according to the European Court of Auditors.
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23 Sep 16
The European Commission is to publish a draft law setting out EU-wide rules on how companies calculate their tax dues, according to the bloc’s most senior tax official.
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22 Sep 16
The United Nations has warned of growing fears of a fresh sovereign debt crisis as poorer states that borrowed heavily in good economic times struggle to weather lower levels of growth.
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22 Sep 16
Politicians, royalty and convicted criminals are among those named as directors of 175,000 secretive companies registered in the Bahamas, according to another cache of leaked documents published...
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22 Sep 16
The Asian Development bank has approved $631m in funding to develop the initial phase of a 2,500 kilometre system of roads, water and power infrastructure on India’s east coast.
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22 Sep 16
Iraq’s parliament has voted to sack the country’s finance minister after he was questioned over corruption allegations last month.
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21 Sep 16
Almost $130m worth of UK aid money is to be spent on returning refugees to war-torn countries like Somalia and ensuring they do not travel on to Europe.
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21 Sep 16
A city-driven initiative to close the global mental health gap was launched in New York yesterday, with hopes of capitalising on local networks to support the 450 million people affected worldwide.
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21 Sep 16
The world economy is set to remain in a “low growth trap”, the OECD has warned in its interim Economic Outlook.
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21 Sep 16
Digitising taxes in Tanzania could boost the country’s revenues by half a billion dollars every year, according to a United Nations report.
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21 Sep 16
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has raised €350m ($391m) in the first round of fundraising for its debut Equity Participation Fund.
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20 Sep 16
Indonesia is launching a criminal case against Google's parent company Alphabet with hopes of obtaining five years’ worth of back taxes, a senior government tax official has told Reuters.
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20 Sep 16
The cost of decommissioning Soviet-era nuclear power plants in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia could balloon to €11.4bn ($12.7bn), the European Court of Auditors has warned.
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20 Sep 16
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
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19 Sep 16
Governments spent almost $14bn of aid meant for the world’s poorest people within their own borders last year, according to the ONE Campaign’s annual data report.
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19 Sep 16
Corruption must be tackled in order to bridge the “trust divide” between the public and the world’s institutions, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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19 Sep 16
China could be heading toward a banking crisis as a huge credit binge puts the world’s second largest economy under pressure, a global financial watchdog has warned.
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19 Sep 16
The G20 did not make strong enough commitments towards rebuilding public trust and integrity in government and public sector institutions, IFAC chief executive Fayez Choudhury has told PF.
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19 Sep 16
Governments around the world contributed to the largest single pledge to a global health project on Saturday, after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria received nearly $13bn in...
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16 Sep 16
The president of Mozambique will work with the International Monetary Fund to set the terms of an international audit on the country’s public debt, the fund announced today.
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16 Sep 16
The European Union has spent at least €17bn ($19bn) on beefed-up border security and deterrents that only push migrants to find more hidden and dangerous routes into the region, the Overseas...
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16 Sep 16
The UK government must urgently cease the sale of all weapons to Saudi Arabia until an independent inquiry can be conducted into reports that British-made munitions are being used against civilians...
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16 Sep 16
Pakistan has become the latest nation to sign up to the OECD’s international cooperation initiative to combat tax avoidance and evasion, the think-tank has announced.
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16 Sep 16
The European Commission has compiled a list of nations that could one day find themselves on the first common European Union blacklist of countries that do not adhere to good tax practices.
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15 Sep 16
Ukraine has secured the release of a long-delayed, $1bn tranche of its $17.5bn International Monetary Fund bailout, despite falling short of some reform requirements and facing staunch opposition...