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5 Aug 16
Australia has suspended its aid for global Christian charity World Vision after Israeli security forces charged one its senior officials in Gaza for feeding millions in donor funds to Hamas.
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5 Aug 16
Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously re-elected for a second term by the bank’s board of governors.
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5 Aug 16
African nations must do more to harness urbanisation to ensure the continent grows sustainability as millions more people head for its cities, according to the African Development Bank.
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4 Aug 16
Tackling Asia and the Pacific’s “missing middle” in social protection will be critical for the region’s inclusive growth and sustainable development, the Asian Development Bank’s vice-president has...
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4 Aug 16
The European Union has hit Chinese and Russian steel producers with anti-dumping tariffs, including retroactive levies on imports registered before February.
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4 Aug 16
An historic tax reform that will help create a single market in India has been backed by the country’s parliament.
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4 Aug 16
An all-party parliamentary group in the UK has claimed the international proposals to combat global tax evasion do not go far enough and may create new loopholes that could be used to avoid paying...
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3 Aug 16
The OECD has praised the recent introduction of “game changing” anti-corruption laws in Mexico, which it said would substantially transform the nation’s graft-fighting architecture.
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3 Aug 16
Recent economic policy decisions made by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe have achieved partial success but now need to be upgraded, the IMF has said.
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3 Aug 16
The African Development Bank has approved a €6m project in South Sudan as renewed violence prompts other organisations to take flight.
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3 Aug 16
Foreign homebuyers in Vancouver have to pay a 15% property tax as of yesterday in an effort to make homes in the Canadian city more affordable.
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3 Aug 16
Economic growth next year will be lower than expected, due largely to the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
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2 Aug 16
Australia, the UK and South Korea are world leaders in using e-government to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, according to a United Nations survey.
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2 Aug 16
Child hunger costs Ghana some $2.6bn every year, equivalent to 6.4% of the country’s GDP, a report from the United Nations has found.
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2 Aug 16
The UK’s candidate for its next European commissioner, Sir Julian King, will be given the security brief by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, it was announced today.
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1 Aug 16
The Tunisian parliament has overwhelmingly voted to sack the country’s prime minister Habib Essid, effectively dissolving the government.
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1 Aug 16
The president of the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York has called for caution before going ahead with another increase in interest rates in light of risks to the nation’s economy.
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1 Aug 16
The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian aid missions to north-eastern Nigeria’s Borno state after a convoy was attacked last week.
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1 Aug 16
From today, Greece will ease stringent capital controls in the hope of luring back some of the cash pulled from Greek banks at the height of last year’s crisis.
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29 Jul 16
IPSASB has updated its accounting standard covering employee benefits, it was announced on Thursday.
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29 Jul 16
Nigeria’s ministry of works has already spent nearly a quarter of its increased budget in less than three months as part of a programme to boost capital spending, the country’s minister for power,...
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29 Jul 16
The International Monetary Fund underestimated the risks of the eurozone debt crisis and overrode its own procedures to make unsustainable loans, a key report published today has concluded.
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29 Jul 16
Growth across the eurozone has slowed in the second quarter of 2016, according to figures released today.
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28 Jul 16
Switzerland is one of ten countries said to have made sound progress toward greater tax transparency in recent years, according to the OECD.
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28 Jul 16
Drought-stricken nations across southern Africa have declared a regional disaster and launched a $2.4bn dollar appeal to assist millions of citizens in dire need of food aid.