Joint PULSAR, STAREP and EU-REPARIS Communities of Practice Workshop

Financial Reporting in Private and Public Sectors – Common Issues, Challenges and Recent Developments

A two-day workshop on November 28-29 convened participants from three regional programs, covering 13 countries, that is STAREP (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), EU-REPARIS (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) and PULSAR (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine) [PULSAR joint workshop was co

Leaders Commit to the Development of High-Quality Financial Information to Help Boost Economic Development

About 300 delegates including ministers of finance, senior government experts, and representatives of the business, professional and academic communities gathered today to discuss the role financial information plays in supporting economic development, regional and global integration of economies, and convergence of income and living standards between poorer and richer countries. The conference took place under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was organized by the World Bank’s Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR).