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...Liberia, Johnson Sirleaf is doing better. She set a three-year poverty-reduction strategy whose four pillars are peace and security, governance and the rule of law, infrastructure and basic services, and economic revitalization. A U.N. peacekeeping force and an embargo on arms are keeping conflict at bay. Schools and hospitals have reopened. Tax receipts are up. Bureaucracy is down. U.N. sanctions on diamond and timber exports have been lifted. Liberia is attracting foreign investment in iron ore, timber, palm oil and construction. Though steel giant Arcelor Mittal recently mothballed a $1.5 billion project to reopen an iron-ore mine...
...preserved and [government] transparency and accountability is respected. We're tackling infrastructure [and reactivating] our mines, forests and agriculture. We [got] all the U.N. sanctions lifted on our diamonds and forestry. We restructured the civil service and scaled down government. [We are working on] the restoration of basic services, such as schools and the improvement in conditions of our market people. If there's anything more important, we have restored hope of our people in the future. The challenges remain many. First and foremost unemployment. [Then] the fragility in our security situation [which] manifests itself in armed robberies...
What's the future? A strong economy, with a population that has all of its basic needs met. All of our institutions restored. Liberia can become a post-conflict success story, along the lines of Rwanda and Mozambique. That's our target. Ten years, and we should be where Rwanda is today. [It's part of a pattern] across the continent. Africa is growing equal to or better than all the other regions. Whereas we had military rule and dictatorships, today we have 18 or 19 functioning democracies. Look at how we have gone from [a stance of] non-interference...
...word redecoupling is beginning to appear in the media. Nandan Nilekani, who is about to leave the chairmanship of Indian tech company Infosys for a government post, speaks of "tactical coupling" and "strategic decoupling." That is, nobody could escape the short-term effects of a global crisis, but the basic BIC growth story still holds. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...What is your priority now? Over 300,000 people are in the IDP [internally-displaced persons] camps. The whole area is mined. We must de-mine the whole area, give basic facilities, water, electricity, roads, resettle them. (Read "The Tigers' Last Days...