With millions of US dollars spent yearly on their luxury vehicles alone, Liberia has increasingly become a welfare state for politicians, while ordinary citizens including civil servants labour in ...

One of the leading daily newspapers in Liberia published the lead story on last Friday titled Power Versus Wealth.

It is midnight in Kru Beach, Robert sport, Grand Cape Mount County, and many families are already fast asleep, but Nana Nadge, 32, is out, locked in a battle against exhaustion and choking smoke.The ...

The country has also suffered from high unemployment rates, particularly among young people, further exacerbating poverty. Meanwhile, Liberia’s reliance on commodity exports such as rubber and ...

This weekend the world meets to commit to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure ... The West African State of Liberia is one of 27 countries in the world that ...

Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 59% of its population living in poverty as of 2016. The country faces significant challenges, including low human development, high rates of ...

In addition, the World Bank supports the Government of Liberia through analytical and advisory work on a range of topics, including public expenditure reviews, poverty assessments, country climate ...

Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world where only a small minority of families have clean water or sanitation. The country is in ruins after years of civil war. Child mortality is ...

Despite the cessation of hostilities, the wounds inflicted during the civil wars persist, as many victims and survivors feel ...

The World Bank today launched its flagship report, the Liberia Country Economic Memorandum, titled “Escaping the Natural Resource Trap: Pathways to Sustainable Growth and Economic Diversification in ...

Zimbabweans, too, are no strangers to the so-called “resource curse” — a paradox described by various scholars in which ...