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14 Feb 18
This week’s New York summit offers an opportunity to start the process of fixing the broken tax system, argues David McNair of the ONE Campaign.
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6 Feb 18
Revenue officer Ravi Kant Gupta explains the idea behind India’s health reforms, which the country is calling the ‘largest healthcare programme’ in the world, and how they will benefit the...
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6 Feb 18
The world has made improvements in the empowerment of women over the past 40 years but countries still have a long way to go and should mainstream gender budgeting, says the IMF’s Christine Lagarde....
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30 Jan 18
More debate on the interaction between aid and the private sector is needed, but must be led by the voices and priorities of the poorest people, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad.
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25 Jan 18
The political fall out for the European Union and its members after Brexit has not yet been fully considered, says Chatham House's Christopher Smart.
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23 Jan 18
The US shows countries are running the risk of increasing their debt to levels where they will not be able to borrow anymore, warns the University of London’s Professor Michael Ben-Gad.
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16 Jan 18
Ten years on from the global financial upheaval, it is increasingly clear that there will never be a return to the old ‘normal’, says Chatham House’s Matthew Oxenford.
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10 Jan 18
Asia accounts for a third of global fossil subsidies. Phasing these subsidies out would strengthen the continent's public finances, says the Asian Development Bank’s Shikha Jha.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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4 Dec 17
The expansion of the middle-class changes the game for policymakers in emerging economies: ignore them at your peril, says Angel Melguizo of the OECD Development Centre.
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30 Nov 17
Development objectives need to come first in the EU’s new External Investment Plan and be backed by high levels of transparency, says Xavier Sol of Counter Balance.
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24 Nov 17
Advocates of blended finance say it is key to making a success of the SDGs, but the evidence might tell a different story, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad
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21 Nov 17
A new legislative assembly in Nunavut has to move quickly to get to grips with issues and fulfil their residents' expectations, says Marcel Holder Robinson.
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14 Nov 17
International local governments cope with economic shock in different ways, explains Ileana Steccolini, but to improve financial resilience they must learn lessons from one another.
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6 Nov 17
The investment conditions for Argentina’s $69bn infrastructure plan may become more predictable following the results of the country’s mid-term elections, says Candela Macchi.
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31 Oct 17
As Latin America and the Caribbean emerges from an protracted economic slowdown it is confronted with a conundrum: where will sustainable growth come from?
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23 Oct 17
The announcement of funding for the UK’s development finance institution last week should have come with a commitment to transparency about how overseas development money is spent, argues...
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10 Oct 17
Governments should change the way they account for minerals receipts to get a true picture of the revenue they bring in, says Rahul Basu and Daryl DaCosta from the Goa Foundation.
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29 Sep 17
Progress in financial accountability in different countries can be seen at a glance and compared using a new international index, says CIPFA's Steven Cain.
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29 Sep 17
From Barcelona to Hamburg, senior city executives are coming together in Europe’s City Economic and Financial Governance Group to share learning and examine common public finance issues
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27 Sep 17
Problems at a mine have highlighted issues with the European Investment Bank’s accountability – and this is set to be weakened further
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25 Sep 17
China’s new accounting rules – the basic principles – introduce an accruals system and allow performance to be compared throughout the public sector
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19 Sep 17
At his annual state of the European Union speech last week, Jean-Claude Juncker said all countries in the EU should adopt the euro. The currency should “unite rather than divide”,...
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4 Sep 17
Brazil's large-scale privatisation of state assets may not be all that it seems. Gavin O'Toole, author of numerous books on the region, says although the sell-off has pleased the markets it...
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11 Jul 17
The latest G20 summit in Hamburg achieved very little and left anti-poverty campaigners feeling frustrated