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23 Oct 17
The European Commission has announced a €106m humanitarian aid package for Sudan as civil unrest continues in the country.
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20 Oct 17
Mongolia will receive $1.6m from the Asian Development Bank to support its health and education sectors.
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18 Oct 17
Stronger public financial management is key if the Guinea government is to better support its investments, the IMF has said.
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17 Oct 17
Financing to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Pacific will more than double to over $500m between 2017 and 2020, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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16 Oct 17
The UK will help “lift countries out of poverty”, create millions of jobs and end aid dependency through the growth of its CDC arm, the international development secretary told the World...
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16 Oct 17
Governments should invest more in human beings and the social services that support them as means of growing their economies, the World Bank president has urged.
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13 Oct 17
The government of Vanuatu and the Asian Development Bank have struck a $15.1m agreement for renewable energy.
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12 Oct 17
Tax and revenue collection has continued to improve across African countries, according to latest data.
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11 Oct 17
Southeast Asian nation Timor-Leste needs to make its public spending more efficient as its oil resources are expected to run out in a few years, the IMF has advised.
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11 Oct 17
Saudi Arabia’s authorities have made progress in implementing its Vision 2030 project, with fiscal consolidation efforts “beginning to bear fruit”, the IMF has said.
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11 Oct 17
Developing countries need more money to educate girls in order to grow local and global economies, an advocacy organisation has said.
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9 Oct 17
The European Commission will give an additional €4m to Serbia to assist refugees and asylum-seekers in the country, it said yesterday.
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6 Oct 17
Developing countries need to adapt national and international policies to cope with the rising wages in their nations, OECD members have said.
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4 Oct 17
Côte d’Ivoire’s fiscal deficit is expected to decrease to 3.75% of GDP next year as its economic performance remains strong, despite the falling cacao prices, according to the IMF.
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4 Oct 17
Advanced economies are not doing enough to close gender gaps, despite increased focus on getting more women into public and private sector leadership, the OECD has said.
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4 Oct 17
Albania needs to collect more taxes and strengthen its public investment management, despite the economy’s continued recovery, the IMF has said.
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3 Oct 17
Since responsibility for spending aid was taken from DfID and divided between numerous departments and funds, there is uncertainty over monitoring and even if it is being spent at all. Russell...
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2 Oct 17
The Asian Development Bank plans to up its annual lending to India to $4bn in an effort to accelerate the country’s economic transformation towards upper middle-income status.
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2 Oct 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved financing of up to $900m to upgrade Sri Lanka’s road network, as well as a $50m loan to fund solar power generation systems.
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28 Sep 17
Citizen participation has become a political football in Brazil, as austerity turns back its progress. Gavin O'Toole reports.
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25 Sep 17
The world is running out of antibiotics and research funding is needed to combat the threat of antibiotic resistant diseases, such as tuberculosis, a new report by the World Health Organisation has...
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25 Sep 17
Since the New Zealand government blazed a trail by shifting to accruals accounting in 1992, it has been taking off in the public sector across the world.
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22 Sep 17
The Swiss National Bank and the National Bank of Belgium have both agreed to lend millions of dollars to support low-income countries, in partnership with the International Monetary Fund.
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22 Sep 17
The United Nations has called for further investments and economic policy changes to tackle global hunger affecting millions around the world.
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22 Sep 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved two loans, totalling $1.1bn, to strengthen Indonesia’s energy sector and promote growth and development.