An illustration of the high cost of low state (fiscal) capacity in Liberia

Reactions to a statement from the US Ambassador to Liberia

I: (Mis)governing Liberia

The United States ambassador to Liberia recently penned a statement decrying the state of public infrastructure and services in the country. In the statement (below) the ambassador succinctly describes a number of structural problems associated with low state capacity, including the problem of weak public finance management (PF…