Stop Using Poor Liberians to Defend Rice Giveaways
Liberia cannot surrender millions of dollars in the name of vulnerable families when importers and higher-income households capture most of ...
Tag: World Bank
World Bank: Rice Tax Breaks Cost Liberia US$41M, Miss Poor Families
MONROVIA — Tax breaks meant to make rice cheaper for poor Liberians cost the government about US$41 million in 2024, ...
Liberia Sitting on 5.3% of GDP in Lost Revenue, World Bank Warns
Monrovia – Liberia is leaving the equivalent of 5.3 percent of GDP on the table every year through weak tax ...
Liberia Launches Digital Collateral Registry to Curb Duplicate Claims, Expand Business Credit
MONROVIA — Liberia has launched an upgraded digital registry that will allow lenders to verify ownership and existing claims against ...
Liberia Launches Urban Planning Training to Strengthen Resilience
MONROVIA – Liberia has launched a three-day training to embed disaster risk into how its fast-growing cities are planned, as ...
Liberia Launches First Utility-Scale Solar Plant, Secures $57M to Expand Power Access
HARRISBURG — Liberia brought its first utility-scale solar power plant online over the weekend, a US$16 million, 20-megawatt facility that ...
Liberia, World Bank Discuss Development Support At Spring Meetings
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Liberia's Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, led a delegation to the sidelines of ...
Boakai deepens World Bank ties, pushes power expansion and infrastructure reforms
Monrovia — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has stepped up engagements with international development partners, holding high-level talks with World Bank ...
World Bank Reviews Fisheries Investments in Liberia
Monrovia — An Implementation Support Mission of the Liberia Sustainable Management of Fisheries Project (LSMFP), implemented by the National Fisheries ...
World Bank–backed project boosts Women’s livelihoods in rural Montserrado
Todee, Rural Montserrado — More than 50 women in Nyehn Town, Todee District, are benefiting from a World Bank–funded Women’s ...
