Welfare integrity is a two-way street for Centrelink clients – The Sydney Morning Herald

The Department of Human Services overseeing Centrelink reports an error rate of about 2 per cent in administering payments. There are other, less flattering figures to report, not least that more than 55 million calls to the welfare agency met engaged tones last year. Human Services, regardless of any criticism it’s copped, says “robo-debt” has…

Debt bumps on China’s Belt and Road | afr.com – The Australian Financial Review

It’s the pet topic of journalists from China’s state-run media machine. Almost every press conference or CEO roundtable at last month’s Boao Forum included a pre-prepared question about President Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy the multitrillion-yuan infrastructure project known as The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The rhetoric around President Xi’s vision to construct a…

Juncker urges eurozone to honour Greek debt relief pledge – Journalducameroun.com – English – (press release)

Published on 26.04.2018 at 11h54 by AFP European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday urged eurozone countries to honour their promises to provide debt relief to Greece, whose economy is still struggling. We should now focus on the problem of reducing (Greeces) debt. I want all member states to honour (their)…

Low-income country debt: Déjà vu all over again? – Brookings Institution (blog)

Finance ministers attending the recent Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank clearly heard the alarm that Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah sounded on African debt: The only topic for discussion at the Development Committee lunch was debt in low-income countries. The conversations in hallways and meetings reminded me of those 20…