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2023 Fiscal Transparency Report: Senegal

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Senegal. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing audits of the entire annual executed budget within a reasonable period. The budget was widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. The budget was substantially...


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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

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.