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27 Sep 16
Saudi Arabia has announced sudden cuts to pay and perks for government employees as the oil-dependent kingdom struggles to balance the books and adjust to low commodity prices.
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26 Sep 16
Greece’s creditors need to offer more substantial relief options to tackle the country’s €248bn ($279bn) debt mountain, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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26 Sep 16
Nigeria has hunted down 700,000 tax-cheating firms and expects to identify 10 million non-tax paying individuals and make them pay up by December, the country’s tax chief has said.
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26 Sep 16
Sustainable cities are about more than cutting carbon emissions – they involve thinking about how people live, travel and interact with the natural world. Ahead of the UN’s Habitat III summit, PF...
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23 Sep 16
Anti-austerity policy reversals in Portugal are starting to rewind the country’s fragile economic recovery, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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23 Sep 16
The inclusion of the yuan in the International Monetary Fund’s special currency basket is an “important milestone” in China’s financial integration, fund officials said yesterday.
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23 Sep 16
The historic global climate deal brokered in Paris in 2015 is likely to come into force by the end of the year, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has said.
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23 Sep 16
The European Commission is to publish a draft law setting out EU-wide rules on how companies calculate their tax dues, according to the bloc’s most senior tax official.
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22 Sep 16
The United Nations has warned of growing fears of a fresh sovereign debt crisis as poorer states that borrowed heavily in good economic times struggle to weather lower levels of growth.
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22 Sep 16
Politicians, royalty and convicted criminals are among those named as directors of 175,000 secretive companies registered in the Bahamas, according to another cache of leaked documents published...
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22 Sep 16
Iraq’s parliament has voted to sack the country’s finance minister after he was questioned over corruption allegations last month.
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21 Sep 16
The world economy is set to remain in a “low growth trap”, the OECD has warned in its interim Economic Outlook.
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21 Sep 16
Digitising taxes in Tanzania could boost the country’s revenues by half a billion dollars every year, according to a United Nations report.
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20 Sep 16
Indonesia is launching a criminal case against Google's parent company Alphabet with hopes of obtaining five years’ worth of back taxes, a senior government tax official has told Reuters.
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20 Sep 16
The cost of decommissioning Soviet-era nuclear power plants in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia could balloon to €11.4bn ($12.7bn), the European Court of Auditors has warned.
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20 Sep 16
The OECD’s straight-talking chief economist tells PF why proactive policies matter more than ever in an uncertain, post-Brexit world
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20 Sep 16
The BRICS group is thriving despite some recent economic turbulence. It offers members a shared policy platform and cross-continental connections
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20 Sep 16
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
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19 Sep 16
Corruption must be tackled in order to bridge the “trust divide” between the public and the world’s institutions, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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19 Sep 16
China could be heading toward a banking crisis as a huge credit binge puts the world’s second largest economy under pressure, a global financial watchdog has warned.
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19 Sep 16
The G20 did not make strong enough commitments towards rebuilding public trust and integrity in government and public sector institutions, IFAC chief executive Fayez Choudhury has told PF.
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16 Sep 16
The president of Mozambique will work with the International Monetary Fund to set the terms of an international audit on the country’s public debt, the fund announced today.
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15 Sep 16
Improved public management has helped keep Tanzania on track to hit 7.2% growth in 2016, according to the governor of the country’s central bank.
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14 Sep 16
The UK and China are to work together to grow the global green bond market after a commitment to scaling up green finance was included in the G20 communiqué for the first time this year.
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13 Sep 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has called on governments to make globalisation more inclusive.
27 Sep 16Saudi Arabia has announced sudden cuts to pay and perks for government employees as the oil-dependent kingdom struggles to balance the books and adjust to low commodity prices.
26 Sep 16Greece’s creditors need to offer more substantial relief options to tackle the country’s €248bn ($279bn) debt mountain, the International Monetary Fund has said.
26 Sep 16Nigeria has hunted down 700,000 tax-cheating firms and expects to identify 10 million non-tax paying individuals and make them pay up by December, the country’s tax chief has said.
26 Sep 16Sustainable cities are about more than cutting carbon emissions – they involve thinking about how people live, travel and interact with the natural world. Ahead of the UN’s Habitat III summit, PF...
23 Sep 16Anti-austerity policy reversals in Portugal are starting to rewind the country’s fragile economic recovery, according to the International Monetary Fund.
23 Sep 16The inclusion of the yuan in the International Monetary Fund’s special currency basket is an “important milestone” in China’s financial integration, fund officials said yesterday.
23 Sep 16The historic global climate deal brokered in Paris in 2015 is likely to come into force by the end of the year, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has said.
23 Sep 16The European Commission is to publish a draft law setting out EU-wide rules on how companies calculate their tax dues, according to the bloc’s most senior tax official.
22 Sep 16The United Nations has warned of growing fears of a fresh sovereign debt crisis as poorer states that borrowed heavily in good economic times struggle to weather lower levels of growth.
22 Sep 16Politicians, royalty and convicted criminals are among those named as directors of 175,000 secretive companies registered in the Bahamas, according to another cache of leaked documents published...
22 Sep 16Iraq’s parliament has voted to sack the country’s finance minister after he was questioned over corruption allegations last month.
21 Sep 16The world economy is set to remain in a “low growth trap”, the OECD has warned in its interim Economic Outlook.
21 Sep 16Digitising taxes in Tanzania could boost the country’s revenues by half a billion dollars every year, according to a United Nations report.
20 Sep 16Indonesia is launching a criminal case against Google's parent company Alphabet with hopes of obtaining five years’ worth of back taxes, a senior government tax official has told Reuters.
20 Sep 16The cost of decommissioning Soviet-era nuclear power plants in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Slovakia could balloon to €11.4bn ($12.7bn), the European Court of Auditors has warned.
20 Sep 16The OECD’s straight-talking chief economist tells PF why proactive policies matter more than ever in an uncertain, post-Brexit world
20 Sep 16The BRICS group is thriving despite some recent economic turbulence. It offers members a shared policy platform and cross-continental connections
20 Sep 16The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
19 Sep 16Corruption must be tackled in order to bridge the “trust divide” between the public and the world’s institutions, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
19 Sep 16China could be heading toward a banking crisis as a huge credit binge puts the world’s second largest economy under pressure, a global financial watchdog has warned.
19 Sep 16The G20 did not make strong enough commitments towards rebuilding public trust and integrity in government and public sector institutions, IFAC chief executive Fayez Choudhury has told PF.
16 Sep 16The president of Mozambique will work with the International Monetary Fund to set the terms of an international audit on the country’s public debt, the fund announced today.
