All posts tagged "Finance"

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  Building for the future: delivering infrastructure for the post-COVID world

  Infrastructure is key to economic recovery – but the pandemic has raised big questions around both public sector finances, and the kinds of infrastructure that will be required. At the

  • Posted February 17, 2021
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  Black comedy of errors: how the UK accidentally left the Single Market, and other Brexit stories

  Newly published interviews with key figures involved in Brexit reveal how a lack of expertise led to major mistakes – and suggest that the UK government deliberately built an inexperienced

  • Posted February 16, 2021
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  Layers upon layers: how financial data paints a picture of the pandemic

  Governments have found new sources of real-time financial data that give a clear view of COVID-19’s impact on industries, businesses and workers. At the 2020 Government Finance Summit, top officials

  • Posted February 3, 2021
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  Feeding the people, not the sharks: supporting citizens through the pandemic

  Around the world, finance departments have found different ways of protecting workers and businesses during the COVID crisis. At GGF’s Finance Summit, senior leaders discussed which worked best – reaching

  • Posted January 27, 2021
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  Spare room superheroes: how finance departments met the pandemic threat

  When COVID-19 struck, finance departments around the world sent their staff home – and asked them to put their economies into induced comas. At the Global Government Finance Summit, senior

  • Posted January 15, 2021
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  OECD warns against pivot to austerity

  The chief economist of the OECD has urged governments not to rush to cut public spending deficits, setting out a very different position from that taken by the organisation in

  • Posted January 4, 2021
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  Learning from our mistakes: the post-COVID recovery

  After the financial crisis, a slow and imbalanced recovery fostered a new set of social, health, economic and political problems. At a GGF webinar, expert panellists discussed how policymakers can

  • Posted January 3, 2021
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  Five key debates: the best webinars of 2020

  When the world moved to home-working, so did GGF – bringing together civil service leaders from around the world for a series of webinars on aspects of the pandemic. Here,

  • Posted December 29, 2020
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  Switzerland launches Green Fintech Network

  Switzerland’s government has launched a Green Fintech Network to identify and propose new measures that will improve the operating environment for start-ups involved with sustainable finance and tech. The network

  • Posted November 12, 2020
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  Join ACCA’s Upcoming Virtual Public Sector Conference: Reinvigorating the public sector – Transformation through crisis

  2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants’ (ACCA’s) International Public Sector Conference – a flagship event for the public sector, globally. In recent years, the

  • Posted November 2, 2020
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