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11 Apr 16
Boosting productivity and bringing more people into the labour market must be Japan’s “number one priority” if it is to compensate for its rapidly shrinking workforce, the OECD has warned.
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11 Apr 16
European Union aid aimed at encouraging regional integration in Africa is poorly managed and badly targeted, according to the by the European Centre for Development Policy Management.
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11 Apr 16
The OECD is to convene a meeting of senior tax administration officials this week after calls to formulate a response to the Panama Papers.
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11 Apr 16
Corruption, dirty resources and inequality are among the outcomes of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s investments over the past two decades, according to an environmental...
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11 Apr 16
Sub-Saharan African companies that make use of tax havens are a top destination for World Bank money, analysis by Oxfam has revealed.
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8 Apr 16
The far-reaching and unbridled influence of Turkey’s executive branch is stifling good governance in other state institutions, Transparency International has warned.
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8 Apr 16
Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has announced he intends to stand for re-election to the role.
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8 Apr 16
The World Bank has outlined how it plans to uphold a pledge to scale up its annual investments in tackling climate change by one third in a new Climate Action Plan.
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8 Apr 16
A $200m investment agreement has been signed for the initial funding of a pipeline that will deliver 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually from Turkmenistan all the way through to India.
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8 Apr 16
The European Commission has announced plans to modernise and simplify the EU-wide VAT system, make it more fraud proof, and hand greater control of the tax back to member states.
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7 Apr 16
Russia’s economy faces a “long journey to recovery” from a recession that wiped 3.7% off its GDP in 2015 and could undo almost a decade’s worth of poverty-reduction gains, according to the World Bank...
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7 Apr 16
America’s international development agency USAID has announced nearly $139m worth of humanitarian aid for war-torn Yemen, often dubbed the world’s largest forgotten emergency.
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7 Apr 16
The executive board of troubled Malaysian national development fund 1MDB have today offered their resignations following a damning report into the scandal from the country’s Public Accounts Committee...
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7 Apr 16
There is “no adequate data” to demonstrate that European Union support for farmers’ incomes makes an effective or efficient contribution, the European Court of Auditors has said.
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7 Apr 16
Somalia and Angola have both begun discussions with the International Monetary Fund for support as their economies struggle under the weight of tumbling oil prices and insecurity respectively.
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6 Apr 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has called on world leaders to focus on boosting developing countries’ economies to “pull the roots” of extremism and prevent future refugee crises.
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6 Apr 16
The International Monetary Fund has welcomed Rwanda’s plans to shelve non-priority spending and dampen demand for imports as low commodity prices deal a hard blow to revenues.
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6 Apr 16
The European Commission has announced a €100m development package to address the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement in Sudan.
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6 Apr 16
Health needs from humanitarian emergencies have hit an “all-time high” according to the World Health Organisation, which is appealing for $2.2bn for its work in 2016.
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6 Apr 16
Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has stepped down after revelations in the Panama Papers put him at the centre of a dramatic political crisis.
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5 Apr 16
A new big data tool, launched today in the Philippines, looks set to help manage traffic flows in congested city streets across southeast Asia.
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5 Apr 16
Germany may be a bright spot in the otherwise weak global recovery but challenges, in particular the effective integration of refugees, nevertheless lie ahead, according to the OECD.
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5 Apr 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has reiterated calls for a multifaceted approach to counter the weakening global economy amid warnings it is becoming stuck in a “new...
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5 Apr 16
Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, has announced she will run to succeed Ban Ki-Moon as the next UN secretary general.
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5 Apr 16
Substantial levels of corruption tied to foreign interests are flying too far under the radar in Africa, according to a United Nations report, which calls for new forms of measurement to capture the...