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5 Dec 18
The Nigerian central government will hand $700m to local authorities to improve governance and public financial management, the president has said.
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5 Dec 18
Russia is on track to meet its goal of halving the number of people in poverty by 2024 even if the country’s growth continues to grow ‘modestly’, the World Bank has highlighted.
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4 Dec 18
The French government has announced a six-month suspension of the fuel tax that caused weeks of violent protests across the country.
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4 Dec 18
The world’s most powerful economies have agreed to improve the global trading system as US president Donald Trump delays Chinese tariffs.
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4 Dec 18
The Italian government has signalled it may back down on its high spending plans for next year, which were rejected by Brussels in October.
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4 Dec 18
Attracting accountants to the public sector is one of Malta’s biggest challenges as it shifts to an accrual-based financial reporting system, the director of government accounts has told PF...
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3 Dec 18
Three people have died, hundreds of people have been arrested and buildings vandalised across France following violent fuel tax protests that have been building over the last two weeks.
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3 Dec 18
South Africa’s struggling state-run power firm Eskom has warned the country faces more power cuts, on the fifth day of controlled so-called ‘load-shedding’.
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3 Dec 18
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati will be supported to improve its public finances and boost economic growth through better regulation.
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3 Dec 18
International aid earmarked for climate projects increased by 17% to $56.7bn in 2017, continuing a trend of rising funding for this area, OECD data showed.
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3 Dec 18
Zimbabwe will get a new parliament building with help from China, the information ministry has tweeted.
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30 Nov 18
G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
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30 Nov 18
Public sector accountants have a responsibility to protect data as well as money, a top justice official has told PF International.
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30 Nov 18
Public and the private finance professionals across the globe need to collaborate to fight “innovative” criminals, a European event on fraud in the digital age heard.
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30 Nov 18
A top UK Department for International Development civil servant has vowed to fight attempts to spend increasing amounts of aid money outside his department.
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30 Nov 18
CIPFA is looking for public finance practitioners to submit and review articles for its international journal Public Money & Management (PMM).
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29 Nov 18
Loan conditions imposed by the IMF are leaving countries struggling to pay for basic healthcare, according to a network of civil society organisations.
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28 Nov 18
Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if the current administration does not change its policies, a government report has warned.
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27 Nov 18
The move to accrual accounting by the world’s most powerful economies could put “healthy” peer pressure on others to follow suit, the global accountancy body has said.
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26 Nov 18
South Africa needs to take the fight against corruption “seriously” and stamp it out at local level, the president has said in his annual speech to the upper house.
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26 Nov 18
Ecuador needs $550m to help people coming into the country as they flee Venezuela’s economic crisis, a government official has said.
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26 Nov 18
The Philippine government is overhauling its procurement system as part of wide-ranging plans to digitise financial management systems and improve transparency.
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26 Nov 18
Plans to step up the European Union’s anti-fraud work are “not enough to improve effectiveness”, the bloc’s auditors have warned.
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26 Nov 18
Sustainable development projects in Central Asia have been given a €124m funding boost from the European Commission.
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22 Nov 18
Police officers and soldiers have stormed the parliament of Papua New Guinea over unpaid wages for an international summit that wrapped up just days ago.
5 Dec 18The Nigerian central government will hand $700m to local authorities to improve governance and public financial management, the president has said.
5 Dec 18Russia is on track to meet its goal of halving the number of people in poverty by 2024 even if the country’s growth continues to grow ‘modestly’, the World Bank has highlighted.
4 Dec 18The French government has announced a six-month suspension of the fuel tax that caused weeks of violent protests across the country.
4 Dec 18The world’s most powerful economies have agreed to improve the global trading system as US president Donald Trump delays Chinese tariffs.
4 Dec 18The Italian government has signalled it may back down on its high spending plans for next year, which were rejected by Brussels in October.
4 Dec 18Attracting accountants to the public sector is one of Malta’s biggest challenges as it shifts to an accrual-based financial reporting system, the director of government accounts has told PF...
3 Dec 18Three people have died, hundreds of people have been arrested and buildings vandalised across France following violent fuel tax protests that have been building over the last two weeks.
3 Dec 18South Africa’s struggling state-run power firm Eskom has warned the country faces more power cuts, on the fifth day of controlled so-called ‘load-shedding’.
3 Dec 18The Pacific island nation of Kiribati will be supported to improve its public finances and boost economic growth through better regulation.
3 Dec 18International aid earmarked for climate projects increased by 17% to $56.7bn in 2017, continuing a trend of rising funding for this area, OECD data showed.
3 Dec 18Zimbabwe will get a new parliament building with help from China, the information ministry has tweeted.
30 Nov 18G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
30 Nov 18Public sector accountants have a responsibility to protect data as well as money, a top justice official has told PF International.
30 Nov 18Public and the private finance professionals across the globe need to collaborate to fight “innovative” criminals, a European event on fraud in the digital age heard.
30 Nov 18A top UK Department for International Development civil servant has vowed to fight attempts to spend increasing amounts of aid money outside his department.
30 Nov 18CIPFA is looking for public finance practitioners to submit and review articles for its international journal Public Money & Management (PMM).
29 Nov 18Loan conditions imposed by the IMF are leaving countries struggling to pay for basic healthcare, according to a network of civil society organisations.
28 Nov 18Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if the current administration does not change its policies, a government report has warned.
27 Nov 18The move to accrual accounting by the world’s most powerful economies could put “healthy” peer pressure on others to follow suit, the global accountancy body has said.
26 Nov 18South Africa needs to take the fight against corruption “seriously” and stamp it out at local level, the president has said in his annual speech to the upper house.
26 Nov 18Ecuador needs $550m to help people coming into the country as they flee Venezuela’s economic crisis, a government official has said.
26 Nov 18The Philippine government is overhauling its procurement system as part of wide-ranging plans to digitise financial management systems and improve transparency.
26 Nov 18Plans to step up the European Union’s anti-fraud work are “not enough to improve effectiveness”, the bloc’s auditors have warned.
26 Nov 18Sustainable development projects in Central Asia have been given a €124m funding boost from the European Commission.
22 Nov 18Police officers and soldiers have stormed the parliament of Papua New Guinea over unpaid wages for an international summit that wrapped up just days ago.
