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31 Jan 20
Officials are hopeful that they can reform the global tax system to address the challenges posed by big digital businesses.
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30 Jan 20
Lebanon’s 2020 budget has been passed by its parliament, with politicians desperate to see off an economic crisis.
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30 Jan 20
Homelessness in the world’s richest countries is a problem we do not fully understand, but it will need radical solutions, an expert has told PF Focus.
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28 Jan 20
Chinese officials have said the World Health Organisation remains confident in their ability to control the coronavirus outbreak.
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28 Jan 20
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request for immunity from charges during his corruption scandal.
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28 Jan 20
CIPFA has relaunched its Public Finance International website, as part of an ongoing evolution of the portal aimed at making a variety of new content and learning materials available to CIPFA members...
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27 Jan 20
Child malnutrition costs The Gambia 5.1% of its annual GDP, according to a new study.
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27 Jan 20
A hard-line trade union has called on the French government to abandon its pension reform proposals and start negotiations afresh.
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24 Jan 20
East and South Asian economies face weak growth prospects amid trade tensions and uncertainty around policy, according to a new report.
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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.
31 Jan 20Officials are hopeful that they can reform the global tax system to address the challenges posed by big digital businesses.
30 Jan 20Lebanon’s 2020 budget has been passed by its parliament, with politicians desperate to see off an economic crisis.
30 Jan 20Homelessness in the world’s richest countries is a problem we do not fully understand, but it will need radical solutions, an expert has told PF Focus.
28 Jan 20Chinese officials have said the World Health Organisation remains confident in their ability to control the coronavirus outbreak.
28 Jan 20Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request for immunity from charges during his corruption scandal.
28 Jan 20CIPFA has relaunched its Public Finance International website, as part of an ongoing evolution of the portal aimed at making a variety of new content and learning materials available to CIPFA members...
27 Jan 20Child malnutrition costs The Gambia 5.1% of its annual GDP, according to a new study.
27 Jan 20A hard-line trade union has called on the French government to abandon its pension reform proposals and start negotiations afresh.
24 Jan 20East and South Asian economies face weak growth prospects amid trade tensions and uncertainty around policy, according to a new report.
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.
