U.S. Department of State Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Recent News About U.S. Department of State Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
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The United States Issues an Advisory Focused on the Gold Sector Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Today, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Sanctioning Entities and Individual Connected to Wagner Group in Africa
The United States is imposing sanctions on several entities in the Central African Republic (CAR)
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Additional U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine
Pursuant to a delegation of authority from President Biden, I am authorizing our 41st drawdown for Ukraine, which will provide $500 million worth of U.S. arms and equipment from Department of Defense stocks.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Lesotho
During the review period, the government made its enacted budget publicly available within a reasonable period.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mali
During the review period, the transition government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report available online within a reasonable period.
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Department of State Releases 2023 Fiscal Transparency Report
On June 27, 2023, the United States Department of State released the 2023 Fiscal Transparency Report, which found that, of data collected at 141 of our posts around the world, the governments of 72 met minimum requirements of fiscal transparency.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mauritania
During the review period, the government made significant progress by subjecting the military and intelligence budget to parliamentary oversight.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Afghanistan
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Kabul.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report
Report to Congress on Update to the Fiscal Transparency Report
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Algeria
During the review period, the government made significant progress by disclosing debt of major state-owned enterprises.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Angola
During the review period, the government’s executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were widely and easily accessible online to the public within a reasonable period.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Ukraine
During the review period, the government declared martial law in response to Russia’s brutal, unjustified, and unprovoked war on Ukraine and occupation of parts of its territory.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Azerbaijan
During the review period, the executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report were publicly available, including online, and generally reliable.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Vietnam
During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report accessible to the public, including online.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Papua New Guinea
During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report online within a reasonable period.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mongolia
During the review period, the government’s budget and information on debt obligations were widely and easily accessible to the public, including online.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Laos
During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal publicly available online, but not within a reasonable period.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: China, People’s Republic of
During the review period, the government made its enacted budget and end-of-year report publicly available, including online, but it did not publish an executive budget proposal before enacting the budget.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Cambodia
During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period.
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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Congo, Democratic Republic of
During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring the budget provided a substantially full picture by including major sources of revenue and expenditure and by following procedures for awarding natural resource extraction contracts in practice.