Youth unemployment: how successful were measures to boost the job market?
The graph shows how the youth (<25) unemployment rate has changed in Ireland and the UK over the years compared to the EU...
OECD releases first BEPS recommendations to G20 for international approach to combat tax avoidance by multinationals
The OECD released its first recommendations for a co-ordinated international approach to combat tax avoidance by multinational enterprises, under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project designed to create a single set of international...
IMF Staff Concludes 2014 Article IV and the Second Review Missions to Sudan
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team headed by Mr. Edward Gemayel visited Khartoum from September 3-16, 2014, to conduct the second review under Sudan’s 2014 Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) and the 2014 Article IV Consultation discussions.
IMF Staff Concludes Mission to The Gambia
A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay, visited Banjul from September 4 - 17, 2014. The mission assessed the authorities’ progress in implementing policies since its April visit as part of the second review of...
IMF’s 2014 Financial Access Survey Helps to Map Global Financial Inclusion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the results of the fifth annual Financial Access Survey (FAS), the most comprehensive global source of data on access to, and use of, basic consumer financial services by households and nonfinancial...
World Bank Report: Breaking with the Past to Unleash Tunisia’s Economic Potential
Tunisia has made significant political progress in the three years since the revolution, but without changes to its economic model the country could remain trapped in a cycle of low growth and high unemployment. A new report from the World Bank...
Global growth continuing at a moderate pace, OECD says
Rintaro Tamaki, Deputy Secretary- General of the OECD.
Additional US$3 Million Grant to Improve the Quality of Higher Education in Yemen
The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved an additional US$3 million grant to support the government of Yemen’s efforts to boost the employability of college graduates. The grant will supplement an ongoing project focused on the...
Import ban: how Russian measures are affecting European companies
European companies are still reeling from the impact of a Russian import ban on EU, US, Canadian, Australian, and Norwegian products such as meat, fruit and vegetables. Russia introduced the ban on 7 August in retaliation to EU measures triggered by...
Budgets Committee approves aid for redundant Romanian, Dutch and Greek workers
Redundant workers in the building industry in two Dutch regions, at a Greek bakery, and at a steel producer in Romania would receive European Globalisation Adjustment Fund aid to help them find new jobs under plans approved by the Parliament's Budgets...
