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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Eswatini. During the review period, budget documents were available to the public. However, the executive budget proposal and the end-of-year report were not available online within a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations was publicly available online.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: El Salvador. During the review period, the government’s budget and information on debt obligations were widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. While the budget was substantially complete, actual revenues and expenditures did not reasonably...
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Release: On September 9, 2022, the United States Department of State released the 2022 Fiscal Transparency Report, which found that, of the 141 countries (and the Palestinian Authority) evaluated by the Department, the governments of 72 met minimum requirements of fiscal transparency. Sixty-nine did not meet the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency. Of these 69, however, 27 made significant progress toward meeting the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency.
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Release: From September 9-16, 2022, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Lee Satterfield will travel to Indonesia and Qatar, where she will lead the United States’ delegation to the G20 Culture Ministerial in Magelong, Indonesia and meet with U.S. exchange participants, government...
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News Release: We congratulate President-elect Joao Lourenco on his election as Angola’s next president. We look forward to working with him to strengthen the vital relationship between Angola and the United States. We will continue to collaborate closely with the Angolan government and the Angolan people to promote our shared goals as we work together to advance a more sustainable, secure, inclusive, and prosperous future.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Egypt. During the review period, the government made its budget documents widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Information on debt obligations was publicly available online, except state-owned enterprise debt. Budget documents did not include...
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News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke with Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Paul Huijts today to reaffirm the importance of a successful Seventh Replenishment Conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. President Biden will host the Replenishment Conference during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: El Salvador. During the review period, the government’s budget and information on debt obligations were widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. While the budget was substantially complete, actual revenues and expenditures did not reasonably...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: The Bahamas. During the review period, the government made its executive budget proposal, enacted budget, and end-of-year report widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Information on debt obligations was publicly available. Budget documents...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Cameroon. During the review period, budget documents were widely and easily accessible to the public online. Information in budget documents, however, was incomplete. Information on debt obligations was publicly available and updated quarterly, including for state-owned...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Turkmenistan. During the review period, budget documents and information on debt obligations were not made public, including for state-owned enterprises. The government published aggregate revenue data online in its state-run newspaper. Publicly available budget...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Bangladesh. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing its end-of-year report within a reasonable period. It also made its executive budget proposal and enacted budget widely and easily accessible to the public, including online.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Haiti. During the review period, the government published its budget online within a reasonable period. However, the executive budget proposal and end-of-year report were not published online within a reasonable period. The government produced a summary of public...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Belize. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget, end-of-year report, and information on debt obligations widely accessible to the public, including online. However, it did not publish an executive budget proposal within a reasonable period.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Tajikistan. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing an audit report of the entire, annual executed budget that contained substantive findings, recommendations, and narratives. The government also made its executive budget...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Burma. On Feb. 1, 2021, the military staged a coup d’état that reversed fiscal transparency improvements made between 2012 and 2021. The return of military rule dramatically decreased overall fiscal transparency. While the previous government published its executive...
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Palestinian Authority. During the review period, the Palestinian Authority made its enacted budget public, but not within a reasonable period, and the data was incomplete. The budget was not approved by the legislature. It published monthly budget execution reports...
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News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress) and in many ways was meaningful because it took place coincident with the beginnings of this counteroffensive that Ukraine is engaged in to liberate the land that has been seized by Russian forces as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
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Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Maldives. During the review period, the government made budget documents widely and easily accessible to the public, including online. Budget documents provided a substantially complete picture of the government’s planned expenditures and revenue streams, and budget...
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“NOMINATIONS“ was published in the Senate section on pages S4447-S4449 on Sept. 6