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18 Sep 15
The World Health Organisation is calling on leaders and international donors to triple funding for malaria to $8.7bn by 2030 in order to save the 3 billion people still at risk.
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18 Sep 15
The World Bank and the Swiss Embassy have signed a $9m trust fund agreement to improve public financial management and other institutional capabilities in South African cities.
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17 Sep 15
The World Bank has urged Mongolia to reform its welfare system by consolidating different benefits and targeting assistance better in order to improve the efficiency of spending.
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16 Sep 15
The UK aid department has said Kenya should “put us out of a job as a development partner” once it reaches economic sustainability.
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16 Sep 15
A shift in policy is needed to offset the slowdown in global growth, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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15 Sep 15
A drought and serious crop losses in Haiti have hit the country’s economy hard, the International Monetary Fund has concluded.
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15 Sep 15
The European Court of Auditors has criticised “persistent problems” in the way public authorities across the European Union contract out work, warning that if improvements are not made by...
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14 Sep 15
Ian Carruthers, executive director for policy and standards at CIPFA, has been appointed chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.
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14 Sep 15
Lebanon is to receive £29m of the extra £100m pledged in UK aid for Syria and surrounding countries announced by UK Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this month.
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14 Sep 15
Giving direct cash aid to those caught up in humanitarian crises would be the most effective and transparent form of assistance, a report from a high-level panel of experts has suggested.
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11 Sep 15
The World Bank is funding a $50m programme for Kenya’s statistics bureau to help it improve the quality of the data it produces to support policymaking.
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11 Sep 15
A round-up of public finance news stories from the Middle East & Africa you might have missed.
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11 Sep 15
A round-up of public finance news stories from Europe you might have missed.
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11 Sep 15
A round-up of public finance news stories from the US & Canada you might have missed.
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10 Sep 15
The eurozone needs a stronger and more unified voice in international financial institutions, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said.
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9 Sep 15
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has called on all 28 EU member states to endorse proposals for the emergency relocation of 160,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary.
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8 Sep 15
Belgium has been urged to reverse a decline in the size of its international aid budget.
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7 Sep 15
Public financial management in Zambia is both fragmented and outdated, and fails to capture internationally accepted best practice, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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7 Sep 15
Africa needs to embrace open data as part of the development agenda, Tanzania’s president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has said in a speech at the continent’s first conference on the issue.
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4 Sep 15
Kuwait’s significant fiscal buffer protected its economy from the fall in oil prices and has allowed the government to press ahead with increasing public spending, according to an analysis by...
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4 Sep 15
The International Monetary Fund has urged Macedonia to strengthen its public financial management system, warning that the country needed to rebuild its policy buffers to ensure macroeconomic...
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4 Sep 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Asia Pacific you might have missed.
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4 Sep 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from the Middle East & Africa you might have missed.
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4 Sep 15
A round-up of recent public finance stories from Latin American and Caribbean you might have missed.
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4 Sep 15
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has made a powerful plea to the international community to protect migrant and refugee children from what is being called one of the biggest...