All posts tagged "financial"

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  Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International UK: exclusive interview

  As the UK prepares to host an anti-corruption summit designed to break the deadlock on global action, Robert Barrington, the UK head of Transparency International tells Matt Ross that Britain

  • Posted April 28, 2016
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  OECD releases new anti-corruption toolkit

  A new OECD toolkit to tackle corruption can now be used by governments around the world. The tool specifically aims at the mining, oil and gas industries and provides evidence-based

  • Posted April 27, 2016
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  Russian employment support programme falls flat

  A 3.9bn ruble (USD$60m) anti-unemployment scheme run by Russia’s 18 regional governments has failed to generate significant results, the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation has found. The spending, overseen

  • Posted April 26, 2016
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  Western sanctions are ‘pushing Russia towards China’

  Western sanctions are pushing Russia to explore deeper financial links with China, Moscow’s deputy finance minister has said. Alexei Moiseev said Russia expected to sign a deal this year linking

  • Posted April 21, 2016
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Loosening Defence Equipment & Support pay controls has brought down salary bills, says Jon Thompson, UK’s outgoing MoD perm sec

  Liberating Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) from cross-civil service salary controls has cut the Ministry of Defence (MoD) agency’s staffing bill even as its workforce grows, outgoing MoD permanent secretary

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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  Singapore’s public service to offer more jobs for people with disabilities

  Singapore’s public service will increase the number of jobs offered to people with disabilities, according to one of several measures designed to help the vulnerable included in the state’s latest

  • Posted April 5, 2016
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  India allocates 700bn rupees for civil servants’ salary hike in 2016 budget

  The Indian government has allocated 700bn rupees (£7.4bn) for the salary hike of central government employees as part of the 2016 union budget. Up to 4.7m sitting civil servants and

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  Government of Canada pledges creation of new central ‘results and delivery unit’

  Canada’s federal government is creating a new unit within the Privy Council Office (PCO) to monitor results and delivery of government policies. The new Results and Delivery Unit has been

  • Posted March 24, 2016
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  Changes announced among Singapore’s most senior civil servants

  The head of Singapore’s civil service Peter Ong will relinquish his appointments as permanent secretary, special duties at the prime minister’s office (PMO), and as finance permanent secretary, and take

  • Posted March 23, 2016
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