The survey results implied that the quality of infrastructure in the health and education sectors, in which there had been little recent investment, was low. Excepts of the document contained in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2016 Report on Liberia show that Liberia’s scores on the perceived quality of capital infrastructure, including social infrastructure, was below the average of ECOWAS member countries. In addition, the actual disbursements to externally-financed public investment projects are only around 40 percent of the projected level. Over the last three years, public investment financed by external loans represented about 22 percent of total investment. This implies that Liberia has relatively good access to health and education services which are operating, however, without the support of adequate capital infrastructure.

Source: Front Page Africa January 13, 2017 02:02 UTC