Liberia: Selected Issues

July 20, 2016

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Liberia: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper discusses initiatives to promote export diversification and growth in Liberia. Liberia’s exports have been very concentrated in the past, but some progress in export diversification has been made in recent years, mostly in the enclave sectors. The government has launched the Liberia Agricultural Transformation Agenda (LATA) to support diversification and transformation. LATA strives to build up the agricultural sector as well as adopt a supportive industrial policy. Improving business climate and external competitiveness could play an important role in increasing export diversification in Liberia. Efficiency could also be increased through better access to markets and technology, cheaper imported inputs, as well as more competition with imports.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Banking, Commercial banks, Crime, Financial inclusion, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial services, Mobile banking, Technology

Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Bank FIs, Commercial bank, Commercial bank branch, Commercial banks, CR, Diversification, Diversifying export, East Africa, Export, Export diversification, Financial inclusion, Global, ISCR, Liberia, Loan account, Mobile banking, Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2016/239
Stock No:

1LBREA2016003
ISBN:

9781498371599
ISSN:

1934-7685

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