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29 May 20
The European Commission has proposed a €750bn recovery fund to help drag EU economies out of the slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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29 May 20
Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
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26 May 20
Argentina has defaulted on its debts for the third time since the year 2000, and the president has said he will not enter any restructuring agreement with creditors that delays the country’s economic...
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26 May 20
Cranfield University School of Management lecturer Dr Matthias Nnadi explores how policies that encourage and protect whistleblowers could solve the problem of corruption in Africa.
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22 May 20
Australia has halved the number of people’s wages it expects to subsidise as part of its Covid-19 economic rescue package, blaming reporting errors for the confusion.
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22 May 20
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on governments around the world. With many local governments struggling to find the money to continue to provide frontline services at a time when...
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20 May 20
Indonesia is set to impose a 10% digital services tax on companies based overseas in the second half of 2020, as the government scrambles to fight the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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20 May 20
Huge fiscal responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are being announced around the world, not least in Asia. Civil servant in Pakistan Muhammad Afnan Alam details the situation and how it might impact the...
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5 May 20
Efforts to fix the perceived problems posed by big digital businesses to the global tax system remain on track despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the OECD has said.
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5 May 20
Brazil has created an emergency basic income scheme for informal workers, to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, and advocates of universal basic income believe the crisis could make...
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4 May 20
The EU is sending billions of euros to the Western Balkans to help the region through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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1 May 20
EU countries are losing around €24.5bn in corporation tax each year from US businesses shifting their profits to low-tax countries such as the UK and Switzerland, analysis by the Tax Justice Network...
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24 Apr 20
The US House of Representatives has approved $484bn more of coronavirus relief measures, bringing the government’s total spending on fighting the crisis to almost $3trn.
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24 Apr 20
The fiscal deficit caused by the collapse of oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic could force Saudi Arabia to borrow about $26bn more than it planned this year, as well as draw down up to $32bn...
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22 Apr 20
In 1948, the US passed an initiative that sent more than $12bn (the equivalent of about $128bn today) to Western Europe to recover from the Second World War. Dag Detter argues the world will need...
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21 Apr 20
IMF support is “like blood for the human body” during the coronavirus pandemic, the president of Ukraine has said as his country prepares to deal with the economic fallout of the crisis.
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20 Apr 20
European economies will need at least €500bn from EU institutions to tackle the Covid-19 financial crisis, the head of the EU’s bailout body has said.
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17 Apr 20
G20 countries have agreed a finance plan to help some of the poorest countries in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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15 Apr 20
As coronavirus stress-tests our business continuity plans, we stand to learn valuable lessons – not least on the law of unintended consequences, argues AAT president John Thornton.
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14 Apr 20
The IMF has wiped six months of debt repayments for 25 of the world’s poorest countries, to give them space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
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9 Apr 20
Public sector lenders should take the lead in pioneering innovative loan contracts that allow borrowers to better respond to crises like the coronavirus, argues international development and...
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3 Apr 20
Asian governments have introduced radical fiscal policy measures to beat the impact of COVID-19. Muhammad Afnan Alam, who works in the Auditor General of Pakistan’s office, details their responses.
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2 Apr 20
Developed nations should put together a $2.5trn rescue package to help protect developing economies from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has said.
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31 Mar 20
The largest financial stimulus package in US history has been approved by the president to fight the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak.
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30 Mar 20
Governments need to take “stronger, more coordinated measures” to absorb the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the OECD has said, predicting each month of lockdown will knock two...
29 May 20The European Commission has proposed a €750bn recovery fund to help drag EU economies out of the slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
29 May 20Ireland is in a position to avoid implementing post-coronavirus austerity measures to the scale it imposed after the global financial crisis, the country’s fiscal watchdog has said.
26 May 20Argentina has defaulted on its debts for the third time since the year 2000, and the president has said he will not enter any restructuring agreement with creditors that delays the country’s economic...
26 May 20Cranfield University School of Management lecturer Dr Matthias Nnadi explores how policies that encourage and protect whistleblowers could solve the problem of corruption in Africa.
22 May 20Australia has halved the number of people’s wages it expects to subsidise as part of its Covid-19 economic rescue package, blaming reporting errors for the confusion.
22 May 20The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on governments around the world. With many local governments struggling to find the money to continue to provide frontline services at a time when...
20 May 20Indonesia is set to impose a 10% digital services tax on companies based overseas in the second half of 2020, as the government scrambles to fight the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
20 May 20Huge fiscal responses to the Covid-19 pandemic are being announced around the world, not least in Asia. Civil servant in Pakistan Muhammad Afnan Alam details the situation and how it might impact the...
5 May 20Efforts to fix the perceived problems posed by big digital businesses to the global tax system remain on track despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the OECD has said.
5 May 20Brazil has created an emergency basic income scheme for informal workers, to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, and advocates of universal basic income believe the crisis could make...
4 May 20The EU is sending billions of euros to the Western Balkans to help the region through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
1 May 20EU countries are losing around €24.5bn in corporation tax each year from US businesses shifting their profits to low-tax countries such as the UK and Switzerland, analysis by the Tax Justice Network...
24 Apr 20The US House of Representatives has approved $484bn more of coronavirus relief measures, bringing the government’s total spending on fighting the crisis to almost $3trn.
24 Apr 20The fiscal deficit caused by the collapse of oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic could force Saudi Arabia to borrow about $26bn more than it planned this year, as well as draw down up to $32bn...
22 Apr 20In 1948, the US passed an initiative that sent more than $12bn (the equivalent of about $128bn today) to Western Europe to recover from the Second World War. Dag Detter argues the world will need...
21 Apr 20IMF support is “like blood for the human body” during the coronavirus pandemic, the president of Ukraine has said as his country prepares to deal with the economic fallout of the crisis.
17 Apr 20G20 countries have agreed a finance plan to help some of the poorest countries in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
15 Apr 20As coronavirus stress-tests our business continuity plans, we stand to learn valuable lessons – not least on the law of unintended consequences, argues AAT president John Thornton.
14 Apr 20The IMF has wiped six months of debt repayments for 25 of the world’s poorest countries, to give them space to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
9 Apr 20Public sector lenders should take the lead in pioneering innovative loan contracts that allow borrowers to better respond to crises like the coronavirus, argues international development and...
3 Apr 20Asian governments have introduced radical fiscal policy measures to beat the impact of COVID-19. Muhammad Afnan Alam, who works in the Auditor General of Pakistan’s office, details their responses.
2 Apr 20Developed nations should put together a $2.5trn rescue package to help protect developing economies from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has said.
31 Mar 20The largest financial stimulus package in US history has been approved by the president to fight the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak.
30 Mar 20Governments need to take “stronger, more coordinated measures” to absorb the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the OECD has said, predicting each month of lockdown will knock two...
