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17 May 17
Jordan cut its combined public sector deficit by 3.3 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, the International Monetary Fund has found.
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15 May 17
China has pledged to spend over $120bn in support of its ambitious development plan centred on building trade and connectivity infrastructure across Asia, Africa and Europe.
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12 May 17
UK Aid’s chief civil servant and CIPFA member Sir Mark Lowcock has been appointed as the next head of the United Nation’s humanitarian operations.
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10 May 17
The US has suspended $21m in aid to Kenya’s Ministry of Health due to concerns over “weak accounting procedures”.
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10 May 17
A growing trend towards earmarking public aid funds is burdening aid agencies with high administrative costs, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has said.
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9 May 17
Malaysia is on track to become a high-income nation by the end of the decade, according to a senior government official.
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9 May 17
The UK’s emphasis on serving its own interests through its aid spending takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to a British economics think-tank.
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8 May 17
A universal basic income can increase efficiency and accountability in the public finances of developing countries, experts have argued at a debate held at a UK-based think-tank.
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8 May 17
More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.
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5 May 17
The World Bank is to resume aid payments directly into Malawi’s budget, becoming the second donor to end an aid freeze to the country following high-level corruption revelations in 2013.
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5 May 17
One in four African children will attend private schools by 2021, according to research by consultancy firm Caerus Capital.
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4 May 17
Oxfam has challenged African governments to build a “more human” economy that does not lock the majority of the continent’s population out of economic gains.
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4 May 17
The Asian Development Bank will offer independent advice on dispute resolution in public-private partnerships as part of an initiative announced today.
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3 May 17
The civil service is to be upheld as the “backbone” of good governance and development in south-east Asia, according to a declaration signed by the region’s leaders last week.
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3 May 17
Strong, proactive fiscal governance is critical to securing development gains in Asia-Pacific, the United Nations body dedicated to the region has said.
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2 May 17
The fourth African Congress of Accountants (ACOA) opened in Kampala, Uganda today, with a focus on transforming Africa’s economies through improved accountancy and accountability.
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27 Apr 17
The UK should scale up its overseas aid to the “shamefully underfunded” education sector, British MPs have urged the country’s aid chief.
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26 Apr 17
The Mexican economy alone could lose almost $30bn as a result of the “double burden” of obesity and undernutrition, with billions more at risk in other nations across the region.
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26 Apr 17
Governments have raised almost $1.1bn for war-torn Yemen, where nearly two-thirds of the population – around 19 million people – are in need of aid.
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26 Apr 17
Thousands of refugees and migrants, including unaccompanied children, are being left stranded on Greek islands as a result of European Union policy, the bloc’s auditors have said.
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25 Apr 17
Asian Development Bank lending surpassed the $30bn mark for the first time in the bank’s 50-year history in 2016, its annual report has highlighted.
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25 Apr 17
The development impact of money channelled through UK Aid’s controversial private equity arm is still unclear, the country’s Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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25 Apr 17
The African Development Bank will need more funding soon, its president has warned at an event in Washington DC.
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21 Apr 17
The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
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20 Apr 17
Nigerian president Mohammadu Buhari has suspended two top officials implicated in a scandal over $43m in allegedly misdirected aid funds.