USA – Liberia’s Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah has urged Africa’s development partners to redirect their assistance toward investment in infrastructure and agriculture. “Social services while viable do not provide short run benefits to developing countries, hence the need to create a strategic balance or align social sector services with job creations and skills. Achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development goals will require creating wealth for the poorest populations thereby requiring more attention on countries affected by fragility. It is on this basis that Minister Tweah raises a question on whether we should see fragility through a social or investment lens. If 80% of the people living in extreme poverty will be in countries afflicted by fragility by 2030, then there is a fierce urgency for a heavy push in private sector development, Minister Tweah noted.

Source: Front Page Africa April 22, 2019 01:40 UTC