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7 Mar 16
A deal between the Asian Development Bank and the Eurasian Development Bank will see the banks work together to invest $3bn in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
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7 Mar 16
Investment focused on tackling gender inequality can form an essential part of the fight to end extreme poverty, according to the ONE campaign.
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7 Mar 16
Risks to Belgium’s economy “loom large”, with high public debt, severe labour market fragmentation and “tenuous” fiscal sustainability threatening growth, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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4 Mar 16
Game-changing reforms will be needed to face the global challenge of ageing populations and shrinking labour forces, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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4 Mar 16
Tunisia looks set to receive four years of International Monetary Fund assistance, worth $2.8bn in total, to support its economic reform programme.
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4 Mar 16
The international community must provide the promised funding needed to fill the almost half a billion dollar gap in Syria’s health sector, the World Health Organisation's regional director has said.
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4 Mar 16
The OECD has called on Spain to fulfil its commitment to reverse the sharp decline in its overseas aid funding, which fell by 68% between 2010 and 2014.
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4 Mar 16
Women in Ireland shoulder one of the most unequal burdens in the world when it comes to childcare, according to the UK’s Overseas Development Institute.
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3 Mar 16
The European Commission has announced the EU will step up its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to €470m over 2017-19.
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3 Mar 16
UK prime minister David Cameron is “conning” the British public by spending the country’s aid budget on military and defence activities, the country's shadow secretary of state for international...
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3 Mar 16
Australia could see its annual disaster bill almost quadruple by 2050, to an average of AU$33bn, as population density and the severity and frequency of disasters increases.
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3 Mar 16
Pragmatic, targeted and well-sequenced public finance management reforms are more likely to lead to success than ambitious, large-scale overhauls, the Asian Development Bank vice president has said.
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3 Mar 16
Inconsistent and inadequate data and tools are hampering the European Union’s ability to counter intra-community VAT fraud, which costs the bloc at least €60bn every year, auditors have warned.
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2 Mar 16
India is on the road to recovery, but the world’s fastest growing economy could still do more to bolster resilience and growth potential, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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2 Mar 16
Economic crime is at a “pandemic level” in South Africa and both France and the UK have reported significant increases in its frequency over the past two years, according to PwC.
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2 Mar 16
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is set to “move full steam ahead” in its work in Greece, the bank’s president Sir Suma Chakrabarti has said.
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2 Mar 16
India and the World Bank have signed a $300m credit agreement to support improvements to government-run higher education institutions in a large central Indian state.
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2 Mar 16
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the development of a mandatory lobby register covering the commission, European Parliament and Council of the European Union.
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2 Mar 16
Intensive efforts are needed to spur economic growth and opportunity in Kosovo as political turmoil hampers progress, chief of the United Nations mission in the country has warned.
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1 Mar 16
The United States international development agency USAID has announced a further $20m in emergency food assistance for Iraq.
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1 Mar 16
The UK’s Department for International Development is to help strengthen the use of evidence-based policy and decision making with a grant of $21m.
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1 Mar 16
The Nigerian finance ministry has announced savings of 2.29bn naira ($11.5m) after an audit revealed almost 24,000 non-existent workers on the government’s payroll.
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29 Feb 16
The Indian government has unveiled its 2016/17 budget, prioritising more support for the rural poor, infrastructure and recapitalisation of the country’s banks.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank has approved a $70m project to address the high levels of unemployment among university graduates in Tunisia.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank approved a $120m loan to China last week to support transport development in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province.