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An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Tarhan Feyzioglu visited Seoul during November 1–14 to conduct discussions for the 2017 Article IV Consultation.

Malaysia’s success in reforming land policies and land administration can help other developing countries striving to better manage their resources, says a new World Bank report.

The Council and finance ministers were sharply criticised by MEPs on Tuesday for their lacklustre performance in fighting tax evasion and avoidance.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mr. Luis E. Breuer visited Indonesia from November 1 to 14, 2017, to conduct the discussions for the 2017 Article IV Consultation.

On November 14, the Commission has set out a renewed vision on how to help developing countries fight poverty and create more and better jobs through trade and investment.

In its latest analysis of global debt and equity flows, the World Bank reports that financial flows to low- and middle-income countries rose in 2016 to $773 billion - three times their 2015 levels, according to International Debt Statistics 2018 (IDS 2018) released on November 14.

Digitalisation can foster continued growth in Emerging Asia (the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China and India) over the medium term, according to the OECD Development Centre’s Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2018 (preliminary version).

Local and central government representatives from seven South East Europe (SEE) countries, on November 14, attended a City to City Dialogue in Skopje to share good practices and findings from the Municipal Finance Self-Assessment (MFSA) and Urban Audit and discuss implementation challenges that local governments in the region are facing.