All posts tagged "Finance"

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  Fixing governments’ broken financial systems

  Many finance departments have rescued their economies from major crises twice since 2008, but do they have the tools and assets to do so a third time? At the Global

  • Posted January 31, 2022
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  ‘A global inflection point’: Government finance chiefs set out how their countries are launching the post-COVID economy

  The pandemic has done huge damage to growth rates and public finances – but digital technologies, green growth and government interventions offer an economic lifeboat. At the first session of

  • Posted January 20, 2022
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  Breaking down silos: why savvy data management is essential for effective governance

  Governments often face events that threaten their country’s financial stability, create unemployment and increase the need to provide social support services. COVID-19 is one such example – and a big

  • Posted October 12, 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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  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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