All posts tagged "Global trends"

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  Michelle Fitzgerald, chief digital officer, City of Melbourne: interview

  Michelle Fitzgerald is Melbourne’s first ever chief digital officer, heading up the city’s newly-formed Smart City Office. Six months into the role, she tells Winnie Agbonlahor what she’s doing to

  • Posted June 1, 2016
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  The remarkable rise of India’s think tanks

  The number of think tanks feeding into India’s public debates is expanding fast. Alexandra Katz explores the rapid advances and the growing pains of this emerging policy machine The USA

  • Posted May 26, 2016
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  America’s troops to get 1.6% wage increase, but critics say the law calls for bigger rise

  A key panel in the U.S. upper house has voted in favour of a 1.6% pay rise for America’s troops. The Senate Armed Services Committee last week approved the proposals

  • Posted May 19, 2016
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  Wanted: ‘forward-thinking and innovative leader’ to become World Bank’s next chief economist

  The World Bank is looking for a new chief economist. The new appointee will support the World Bank’s president – Dr Jim Yong Kim – and its senior management in

  • Posted May 16, 2016
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  Latvia to join OECD ‘rich nations’ club’

  Latvia is to join the OECD, after the organisation’s council agreed unanimously to invite the small nation to become its 35th member. The country with a population of 2m people will

  • Posted May 13, 2016
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  UK’s science funding model weak in supporting business growth, says former science minister

  The UK’s concentration on university-led scientific research has created a system less able to support business growth and government policymaking than those in Germany and other big competitor nations, Britain’s

  • Posted May 3, 2016
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  Anti-corruption campaigner: “establishment corruption” threatens UK’s image overseas

  The UK suffers from a “peculiarly British form of corruption” involving “the legalisation of things that look dodgy,” the executive director of Transparency International’s UK chapter has told Global Government

  • Posted April 28, 2016
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  Singapore PM urges civil servants to ‘understand political context’

  Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, has urged civil servants to work hand in hand with ministers and “understand the political context” in an address filled with praise for Singapore’s

  • 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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