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20 Jul 16
The Consultative Advisory Group of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board held its inaugural meeting today in Toronto, Canada.
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20 Jul 16
Four cities with high HIV/AIDS burdens have started publishing data on diagnosis, treatment and suppression of the virus as part of a global cities initiative to end the epidemic.
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20 Jul 16
Strengthening domestic revenues and finding new financing tools will be key to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific, panellists at a United Nations forum have said.
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19 Jul 16
Cambodia’s economy is projected to continue on a robust growth trajectory, but rapidly expanding credit is the biggest threat to the outlook, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
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19 Jul 16
The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its growth projections for the world economy in the wake of the UK’s Brexit vote.
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19 Jul 16
Developing countries are “leading the world” on green finance initiatives, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.
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19 Jul 16
Countries must take early action if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved, the chief of the United Nations Development Programme has said.
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18 Jul 16
Morocco has asked to rejoin the African Union 32 years after it left the organisation due to a dispute over the sovereignty of the Western Sahara.
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18 Jul 16
The director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department is to retire from the fund in October.
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18 Jul 16
A host of Nigerian experts have called for a review of the country’s tax system, which collects significantly less than it could.
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18 Jul 16
The involvement of the private sector is urgently needed to fill the substantial gap left by public money in funding the Sustainable Development Goals, according to the OECD.
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18 Jul 16
The president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean has been re-elected for 2016-17, alongside her deputy, it was announced last week.
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18 Jul 16
Growth across Asia will “remain solid” despite the short-term impact of Brexit and a softer US economy, according to the Asian Development Bank.
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18 Jul 16
Fears of a resurgence in the HIV/AIDS virus are growing as the reduction in the number of new infections has stalled and funding has fallen for the first time in five years.
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15 Jul 16
Governments share the blame for the estimated $3.1 trillion lost to tax evasion and avoidance globally, two tax experts told the CIPFA annual conference yesterday.
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14 Jul 16
It may not always be possible to implement best public financial management practice in some of the most fragile states in the world, an overseas development expert has told CIPFA’s annual conference...
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13 Jul 16
Governments around the world need to hold themselves to the same high standards as they expect from the private sector, the president of the International Federation of Accountants has said.
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13 Jul 16
Public procurement by the European Union is mired in red tape and efforts should be made to help businesses identify contracting opportunities and submit tenders, auditors have said.
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12 Jul 16
Italy’s economy may not recover from the 2008 financial crash until the mid-2020s, suggesting two decades’ worth of growth will be lost, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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12 Jul 16
A controversial bill forcing NGOs in Israel to disclose details of their overseas funding was passed in to law yesterday despite international condemnation.
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12 Jul 16
Venezuela’s government has announced it will seize a factory whose owner, the US personal care company Kimberly-Clark Corp, said it could no longer operate due to the nation’s economic crisis.
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11 Jul 16
The IMF has fast-tracked a loan of $364m for Ecuador to help it rebound from the devastating earthquake that struck the country earlier this year.
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11 Jul 16
The International Monetary Fund has forecast a tentative recovery for Sierra Leone this year after the twin shocks of Ebola and collapsed iron prices sent the economy reeling.
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11 Jul 16
More than 300 people have reportedly been killed in the South Sudanese capital Juba after violence flared between government and rebel forces.
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11 Jul 16
Delaying action on the Sustainable Development Goals will put achieving them ever further out of reach, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has warned.