Cutting the aid budget during the Covid-19 pandemic was “not a good signal” to the UK’s partners around the world, the Conservative Party conference was told.
The government reduced its aid spending so quickly that officials do not know the effect the cuts will have on long-term value for money of UK aid projects, the National Audit Office has said.
The UK government could introduce a domestic minimum tax rate of 15% for multinational companies in an attempt to steer revenues away from low-tax territories towards the Treasury.
Technology giants will benefit from an effective “tax cut” in the UK if a global overhaul of corporation tax goes ahead as expected and replaces the existing digital services tax, according to a...
“Essential” support for companies and workers in the UK must continue if the economy is to recover from Covid-19 and meet the challenges of leaving the EU customs union and single market, the IMF has...
The government will reform the body that scrutinises its aid spending as it merges its international development department with the Foreign Office, the foreign secretary has announced.
Development organisations have criticised the government’s decision to merge its Department for International Development with its Foreign Office, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK government’s international departments are set for a shake-up, after prime minister Boris Johnson launched a review into how the country can face its “global opportunities and challenges”...
The Department for International Development has a new secretary of state, its fifth in less than four years, after Boris Johnson’s first major reshuffle since his landslide election win in December.
The chancellor’s aim of raising the UK’s economic growth to 2.75% per year is “unlikely” in the current climate, according to Britain’s oldest economic think-tank.
A flagship government programme hoped to prevent sexual violence globally is “at risk of letting survivors down” after its funding was cut drastically.
Companies benefiting from big UK government contracts operating in tax havens, public sector consulting bill tops £1.4bn and young and women suffer the most from unemployment in...
Mediterranean migration down 31%, developing countries burdened by $7.8trn debt and France’s sweeping tax cut plans - all in Numbers Game from the November 2019 edition of...
Aid should remain focused on eliminating poverty and inequality, an NGO has highlighted to political parties ahead of the general election in December.
Japan to fund ‘futuristic’ projects, Central America targets malaria and the Irish seek debt reduction - all in Numbers Game from the October 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
The UK faces “extreme difficulty” in getting trade deals after Brexit unless it owns up to its colonial past and makes ‘soft reparations’, an international lawyer told an audience at the Institute...
