All posts tagged "Growth"

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  Australia’s financial services regulator to gain more powers

  The Australian government is to hand new powers to the country’s financial services regulator, after a review of the country’s financial system found that consumers are often treated unfairly. The financial

  • Posted October 27, 2015
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  OECD calls on Peru to boost productivity

  Peru has made significant economic and social progress, but further reforms are needed to achieve more inclusive and sustainable growth, a new OECD report says. While economic and social reforms

  • Posted October 13, 2015
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  Asia’s female workforce has been shrinking, report warns

  Women’s participation in Asia’s workforce has fallen by almost ten percentage points between 1990 and 2013, a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which calls on governments to

  • Posted September 25, 2015
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  Ian Ball, chairman, CIPFA International: Exclusive Interview

  Ian Ball has been on a mission to improve public sector financial management for almost 40 years. Winnie Agbonlahor gets his verdict on how far we’ve come – and how

  • Posted September 24, 2015
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  Pay Rise Announced for Turkey’s Civil Servants

  Millions of civil servants in Turkey are to get a pay rise while retired officials will see their pensions increased, it has been reported. Labor and social security minister Faruk

  • Posted August 25, 2015
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  New Australia-Singapore Research Centre Opens

  The head of Singapore’s civil service, Peter Ong, has launched a new research centre, which will feed into Singapore’s and Australia’s growth policies. The Asia Growth Research Centre, based at the

  • Posted August 24, 2015
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  Peter Ong To Launch New Economic Research Centre In Singapore

  Peter Ong, the head of Singapore’s civil service, will tomorrow launch a new research centre, which will seek to establish how Singapore can respond to economic challenges while maintaining strong links

  • Posted August 17, 2015
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  Egyptian Officials Protest Over New Civil Service Law

  More than 2,000 Egyptian government officials have protested against a new civil service law, in one of the country’s largest anti-government rallies amid a crackdown on dissent, according to media reports.

  • Posted August 11, 2015
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  Iceland warns over capital controls

  The top civil servant in charge of Iceland’s finance ministry has warned that countries imposing capital controls should start thinking about a strategy for lifting them immediately. Iceland introduced capital controls –

  • Posted July 10, 2015
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  Guðmundur Árnason, permanent secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Iceland: Exclusive Interview

  Iceland has recently announced a concrete plan to lift its capital controls. Guðmundur Árnason, the permanent secretary of its finance ministry, explains why it took almost seven years to come

  • Posted July 10, 2015
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