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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak must ensure the cut to foreign aid is temporary

Opinion: As the UK retreats from its pledge to spend 0.7% of GDP on overseas aid, the public finance professionals’ body CIPFA is urging ministers to revive the commitment as […]

Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown calls for global government to tackle coronavirus pandemic

Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to deal with the coronavirus crisis.   Brown said the proposed global taskforce […]

Lithuania to launch digital ‘collector’ coin as central bank mines crypto-currencies’ potential

Lithuania’s central bank is taking the novel approach of launching what it believes is the world‘s first blockchain-based digital ‘collector’ coin as the Baltic state steps up its crypto-currency activity. […]

Opinion: the ‘power of where’ – realising the potential of geospatial data

For millennia maps have guided exploration, supported trade and allowed us to defend our nations and maintain the social fabrics of our societies. They tell the story of human endeavour […]

Hatching the butterfly: public service transformation

Public services around the world are changing – but only a handful are being genuinely transformed from top to bottom. At the final session of Global Government Summit 2019, delegates […]

Irish civil service union calls for cut in working hours

The Irish government’s failure to cut the working hours of more junior civil servants has created “a two-tier public service”, the incoming head of the country’s largest public sector union […]

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Glass ceiling beginning to crack in upper echelons of many countries’ civil services

New research reveals huge disparity in gender equality among top officials across the G20 and EU, but the overall trend is positive. Tania Mason highlights the countries making progress on […]

Nigerian government signs skills deal

The Nigerian Civil Service has formed a private-public partnership (PPP) with the Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), a private sector-led, Nigerian-Ghanaian initiative dedicated to improving the quality of public sector […]

‘Leadership is about courage,’ says senior official who speaks out about battle with depression

A senior civil servant whose team won an innovation award for its work in supporting workplace wellbeing has spoken of her struggle with depression and is urging other leaders to show […]