All posts tagged "budget"

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  Australia releases gender responsive budgeting guidance for federal departments

  The Australian Office for Women has released guidance for federal agencies on gender responsive budgeting. The APS (Australian Public Service) Guide to Gender Analysis and Gender Impact Assessment aims to

  • Posted August 22, 2023
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  UK Treasury issues cost-saving guidance to departments; New Zealand to form online security agency: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK Treasury issues efficiency guidance HM Treasury has published new guidelines for departments on how

  • Posted August 3, 2023
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  Canadian finance minister reiterates warning on tight government finances

  Canada’s finance minister Chrystia Freeland has warned that a slowing global economic outlook will require continued restraint in federal public spending. Freeland hosted a meeting with provincial and territorial finance

  • Posted February 8, 2023
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  US House Republicans vote to make it easier to fire individual federal officials and cut pay

  Republicans in the House of Representatives have resurrected the ‘Holman Rule’, allowing lawmakers to use spending bills to abolish federal agencies, defund specific government programmes and fire individual civil servants

  • Posted January 11, 2023
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  Australian federal agencies told to expect capability reviews as government steps up reform plan 

  Australia’s minister for finance and the public service Katy Gallagher has told agencies to expect independent capability reviews as the government pushes ahead with its public service reform plan. The

  • Posted November 2, 2022
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  Australia’s ‘wellbeing budget’ inspired by New Zealand – with related targets to come

  The Australian government unveiled what has been described as a ‘wellbeing budget’ on Tuesday, having taken inspiration from New Zealand’s approach to economic policy which aims to put the health

  • Posted October 26, 2022
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  If Levelling Up is to work, then it must meet the needs of a green economy

  Later today, the UK Government will publish its Spring Budget, hot on the heels of last month’s Levelling Up White Paper. Many questions remain about how levelling up will be

  • Posted March 23, 2022
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  US federal agencies get 6.7% budget increase in $1.5 trillion spending bill

  President Joe Biden is expected to today sign a US$1.5 trillion spending bill that will fund the government through to the end of September, averting a partial government shutdown. The

  • Posted March 14, 2022
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  UK chancellor announces largest departmental spend increase ‘this century’

  Spending by UK government departments is to grow by £150bn (US$206bn) over the period to 2024-25. UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the increase in his Budget and Spending Review today,

  • Posted October 27, 2021
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  New Zealand sets out 2021 budget with new inclusive wellbeing framework

  New Zealand has published its annual Budget, setting out an updated approach to wellbeing, explaining how it plans to rebuild the country’s economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, and allocating funds

  • Posted May 20, 2021
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