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24 Jan 20
Authorities in coronavirus-hit Wuhan in central China have said they are building a 1,000-bed hospital in just 11 days to respond to the epidemic.
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24 Jan 20
Improving security in the Central African Republic provides the war-torn country with an opportunity to stabilise its economy and boost growth, according to the World Bank.
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24 Jan 20
Millions of children are denied access to schooling because of violence, displacement and natural disasters, but education programmes account for less than 3% of global humanitarian aid spending.
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23 Jan 20
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most corrupt region in the world, according to Transparency International.
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22 Jan 20
Difficulties recruiting teachers poses a risk for the Slovakian education system, which will need 10,000 more teachers in the next few years.
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21 Jan 20
France and the US “will work together” to avoid a trade war over the French decision to introduce a digital tax last summer, Emmanuel Macron has said.
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21 Jan 20
More needs to be done to assess the scale of gender inequality in public finance around the world, according to a network of women in the sector.
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21 Jan 20
The UK government will no longer use foreign aid to fund the global coal industry, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced.
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21 Jan 20
The global tax system needs to be reformed to help address huge levels of inequality, a campaign group has said.
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21 Jan 20
The Honduran president has insisted that he remains committed to the fight against corruption on the same day his government closed down an anti-graft organisation.
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21 Jan 20
Ukrainian ministers have been told to take pay cuts until they improve the country’s ailing economy.
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17 Jan 20
Brazil wants to privatise R$150bn of state assets in 2020, as the right-wing government continues its mission to shrink the state.
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17 Jan 20
Dutch auditors are helping Sudan’s National Audit Chamber to push for better public finance management and stamp out corruption.
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17 Jan 20
Growth in China’s economy slowed last year to its weakest level since 1990, as the long trade war with the US continued to bite.
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17 Jan 20
A record 45 million people in southern Africa face grave food insecurity, following droughts, flooding and struggling national economies, a UN agency has warned.
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17 Jan 20
Vietnam must develop quality infrastructure if it wants to expand its economy, the World Bank has said.
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15 Jan 20
A UN official has blasted the Lebanese government for watching the economy collapse, amid a political and financial crisis that has lasted for months.
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14 Jan 20
The Latvian government has been urged to develop a solution to tackle the country’s crumbling housing stock.
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14 Jan 20
Inaction on climate change is not an option with island nations especially at risk from its effects, a senior UN official has warned an international conference.
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14 Jan 20
The EU runs a trade surplus with itself of more than €300bn, a number that should be zero, and measurement errors alone are not a sufficient explanation, researchers have warned.
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14 Jan 20
Germany recorded its largest ever budget surplus in 2019, the ministry of finance has announced.
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13 Jan 20
A compromise on pension reform hoped to bring about the end of more than a month of strikes in France has been submitted to trade unions by the country’s prime minister.
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10 Jan 20
China made big progress on eliminating poverty in 2019, with one province claiming that just 17 of its 80 million residents were living under the poverty line.
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10 Jan 20
A flagship UK government programme hoped to prevent sexual violence globally is “at risk of letting survivors down” after its funding was cut drastically.
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10 Jan 20
The global economy will grow slightly faster in 2020 than it did last year, the World Bank said as it announced its growth projection of 2.5%.
24 Jan 20Authorities in coronavirus-hit Wuhan in central China have said they are building a 1,000-bed hospital in just 11 days to respond to the epidemic.
24 Jan 20Improving security in the Central African Republic provides the war-torn country with an opportunity to stabilise its economy and boost growth, according to the World Bank.
24 Jan 20Millions of children are denied access to schooling because of violence, displacement and natural disasters, but education programmes account for less than 3% of global humanitarian aid spending.
23 Jan 20Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most corrupt region in the world, according to Transparency International.
22 Jan 20Difficulties recruiting teachers poses a risk for the Slovakian education system, which will need 10,000 more teachers in the next few years.
21 Jan 20France and the US “will work together” to avoid a trade war over the French decision to introduce a digital tax last summer, Emmanuel Macron has said.
21 Jan 20More needs to be done to assess the scale of gender inequality in public finance around the world, according to a network of women in the sector.
21 Jan 20The UK government will no longer use foreign aid to fund the global coal industry, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced.
21 Jan 20The global tax system needs to be reformed to help address huge levels of inequality, a campaign group has said.
21 Jan 20The Honduran president has insisted that he remains committed to the fight against corruption on the same day his government closed down an anti-graft organisation.
21 Jan 20Ukrainian ministers have been told to take pay cuts until they improve the country’s ailing economy.
17 Jan 20Brazil wants to privatise R$150bn of state assets in 2020, as the right-wing government continues its mission to shrink the state.
17 Jan 20Dutch auditors are helping Sudan’s National Audit Chamber to push for better public finance management and stamp out corruption.
17 Jan 20Growth in China’s economy slowed last year to its weakest level since 1990, as the long trade war with the US continued to bite.
17 Jan 20A record 45 million people in southern Africa face grave food insecurity, following droughts, flooding and struggling national economies, a UN agency has warned.
17 Jan 20Vietnam must develop quality infrastructure if it wants to expand its economy, the World Bank has said.
15 Jan 20A UN official has blasted the Lebanese government for watching the economy collapse, amid a political and financial crisis that has lasted for months.
14 Jan 20The Latvian government has been urged to develop a solution to tackle the country’s crumbling housing stock.
14 Jan 20Inaction on climate change is not an option with island nations especially at risk from its effects, a senior UN official has warned an international conference.
14 Jan 20The EU runs a trade surplus with itself of more than €300bn, a number that should be zero, and measurement errors alone are not a sufficient explanation, researchers have warned.
14 Jan 20Germany recorded its largest ever budget surplus in 2019, the ministry of finance has announced.
13 Jan 20A compromise on pension reform hoped to bring about the end of more than a month of strikes in France has been submitted to trade unions by the country’s prime minister.
10 Jan 20China made big progress on eliminating poverty in 2019, with one province claiming that just 17 of its 80 million residents were living under the poverty line.
10 Jan 20A flagship UK government programme hoped to prevent sexual violence globally is “at risk of letting survivors down” after its funding was cut drastically.
10 Jan 20The global economy will grow slightly faster in 2020 than it did last year, the World Bank said as it announced its growth projection of 2.5%.
