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26 Sep 17
Facts and figures from the October 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine, our international special, on global literacy rates, the cost of a college education and which countries have the best...
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22 Sep 17
An alliance of aid charities has urged the Scottish Government to respond to developing world climate catastrophes by ramping up its programme for reducing greenhouse emissions.
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22 Sep 17
Attempts to stamp out global tax avoidance are being undermined by countries negotiating low-tax sweetheart deals. How should the system be cleaned up?
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18 Sep 17
What is the OECD doing to combat fraud and corruption globally? PF Perspectives asked its deputy head of public sector integrity for his views
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11 Sep 17
The UK announced on Saturday it will match public donations to the British Red Cross appeal for victims of Hurricane Irma, up to £3m.
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8 Sep 17
The UK government has released £32m emergency aid to its overseas territories hit by hurricane Irma and is providing extra emergency support, such as 'shelter kits'.
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4 Sep 17
The UK has allocated £400,000 to flood relief work in Nepal, in addition to the £660,000 already given to NGOs in badly flooded Bangladesh.
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1 Sep 17
The UK will work quickly after Brexit to establish a new economic partnership with Japan based on the final terms of the deal being negotiated between Japan and the European Union.
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17 Aug 17
The United Nations has released $150,000 in emergency aid relief to Sierra Leone after fatal mudslides in the country, the global organisation announced yesterday.
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8 Aug 17
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
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1 Aug 17
Campaign group Transparency International has urged the UK authorities to seize any property in the country owned by Pakistan’s disgraced ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
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13 Jul 17
The UK government has allocated £46m in emergency aid for Mosul, following the Iraqi city’s declared liberation from Daesh.
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5 Jul 17
The UK’s aid agency this week launches new funding schemes for small charities and projects focused on diversity, inclusion and eliminating the drivers of intolerance.
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27 Jun 17
As inspector general of the US House of Representatives, Theresa Grafenstine is interested in real facts, not alternative ones
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27 Jun 17
The UK government has pledged to expand zero- or reduced-tariff trading relationships with developing countries post-Brexit.
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22 Jun 17
The UK is to spend £75m ($95m) on tackling the migration crisis in the Mediterranean over the next three years, prime minister Theresa May will announce tomorrow.
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9 Jun 17
Local government finances face very different fortunes in Australia than they do in the UK. But in both, common challenges have prompted the same fundamental questions
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10 May 17
Facts and figures from the May edition of Public Finance magazine on unemployment trends, Scottish attitudes to independence and the ever-increasing retirement age
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9 May 17
The government's emphasis on serving the UK's national interest through its aid work takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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2 May 17
European Court of Auditors president Klaus-Heiner Lehne talks to PF about reform, Brexit and the role of facts in a ‘post-truth’ world
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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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5 Apr 17
The UK has pledged almost £100m of new funding to help landmine clearance in developing countries, tripling its existing commitment in the area.
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4 Apr 17
“Appalling” behaviour by UK aid contractors is facilitated by a hands-off approach to procurement by the country’s aid department, Britain’s parliamentary aid watchdog has...
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28 Mar 17
Too much focus on effective spending could be limiting the potential of the UK’s £12bn aid budget, the country’s parliamentary aid watchdog has warned.
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20 Mar 17
UK aid is to fund training courses in financial management, governance and cost effectiveness to smaller British organisations managing humanitarian projects around the world.