Calum Rutter

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Canada moves towards ‘feminist’ budget

Canada has set up an all-female advisory group aimed at making sure its next budget improves the... Read more
S&P downgrades Kenya's rating, predicting slow recovery from Covid-19

Kenya’s credit rating has been downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's, despite the... Read more
Negative interest rates ‘have worked’ – IMF economists

Negative interest rates achieved their desired effects of boosting growth and inflation, and are... Read more
African national development banks ‘perform worse when politicians are involved’

Political influence over national development banks harms their financial performance and... Read more
US senators propose wealth tax on ‘ultra-millionaires’

A group of progressive Democrats in the US senate has introduced a bill for a 3% annual tax on... Read more
Governments urged to end financial abuses to help solve global issues

The billions of dollars governments lose to tax abuse, corruption and money laundering could be... Read more
Cuts to Yemen aid a ‘death sentence’, says UN chief

The international community has pledged less than half of what the United Nations said it needs to... Read more
Mexico auditors back down in row over cost of cancelling airport project

Mexico’s state auditor has backtracked on its findings about the president’s decision to halt... Read more
OECD countries’ Covid-19 borrowing upsurge swamps 2008 levels

The world’s richest countries borrowed a record $18trn from the markets in 2020, an OECD report... Read more
New Zealand’s central bank told to consider housing prices in decision-making

House prices will now be taken into account when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand makes monetary... Read more

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