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‘Liberia will bounce back from COVID-19 crisis with 3.2% growth’

‘Liberia will bounce back from COVID-19 crisis with 3.2% growth’

ALPHONSO TOWEH LIBERIA is in talks with China over debt relief and expects to return to economic growth this year of 3.2% after an estimated 3% contraction in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, Finance Minister Samuel Tweah told Reuters yesterday. Tweah said he had feared the worst when the pandemic struck last year, since the West African nation's economy was already fragile partly due to the winding down of some foreign aid flows after a 2014-16 Ebola outbreak. "We thought the economy would have collapsed, but it did not happen," he said in an interview. "That suggests strong resilience.…
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